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We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it, And there was no fee.

Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. you at the job center. We've hired some great people and Job Center Plus really took the hassle

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business.gov.com.uk slash recruit. Eligibility criteria apply. In this lesson's episode, examine

how gene patenting blurred the line between discovery and invention in modern biology. Discover how

isolated DNA sequences were granted exclusive modern biology. Discover how isolated DNA sequences

were granted exclusive commercial control, understand how these patents restricted research and

diagnostic testing, and uncover why legal challenges reshape the limits of ownership over human

genetics. So, so walk me through, walk me through what this actually means.

So when you say that our genomes are patented, what does that what does that actually mean?

What are people actually patented?

What is the thing that they are people actually patented? What's the,

what is the thing that they are protecting? Right. So that's, that's a really good question and kind

of a head scratcher, you know, for most people. So, so I think people on your show probably know

what patents are in general, right? They give the owner, the exclusive right to exploit whatever the invention is

for a period of 20 years in the United States. And there are corresponding patents all around the world.

Patents are issued on inventions, right? And so the big question in a lot of these cases,

well, what's an invention? And so for, you know, 150 years,

we've had case law that says, a product of nature, something that you just go out into the forest

and you find a new kind of a berry or a mushroom. You know, you're the first one who discovered

it maybe, the first one who brought it back to quote unquote civilization,

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