The gene patent controversy on Twitter: a case study of Twitter users' responses to the CHEO lawsuit against Long QT gene patents

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• 作者：Li Du ; Kalina Kamenova ; Timothy Caulfield
• 刊名：BMC Medical Ethics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：478 KB
• 刊物主题：Ethics; Philosophy of Medicine; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6939

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Background The recent Canadian lawsuit on patent infringement, filed by the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), has engendered a significant public debate on whether patenting genes should be legal in Canada. In part, this public debate has involved the use of social networking sites, such as Twitter. This case provides an opportunity to examine how Twitter was used in the context of this gene patent controversy.