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wabasso@lemmy.ca 18 hours agoCurious if you’re thinking of any cases where we’d need a safeguard for any parts of the body other than the brain? Like would a whole human minus the brain be OK?
I guess there’s the whole identity theft and impersonation side of things.
Narauko@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The main concerns I see are if it is actually only individual organs, and things like your rights to your own genetic code/cell lines.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 15 hours ago
I could easily see some corporation buying someone’s intellectual property rights to their genetic code. I do recall a Supreme Court case where a company patented DNA.
Narauko@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Exactly what I am talking about along with the immortalized cell lines stolen from minorities. I have no problems with people donating themselves to science or being appropriately compensated with thoroughly informed consent, the advances to science are critical. I just don’t want the biomedical equivalent of OpenAI stealing IP happening to make the 0.1% even richer.