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Patent Concerns

May 31, 2012

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andMe announced earlier this week that it has received its first patent. As our sister publication BioArray News reports, the patent, US Patent No. 8,187,811, covers a method for determining an individual's susceptibility to Parkinson's disease.

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