Should You Be Able to Patent Nature?

In biology, more so than other fields, i'll just say engineering, some of the greatest discoveries were found in the sense that you can go to hot springs in yellowstone and sequence an organism. So when we're discovering things that are derived from a living thing, how do you think about whether or not they should just belong to planet earth as a whole? Well, the's no conflict between their part of planet earth, awhole, and you could make it into a useful tool. The supreme court ruled in the breast cancer jean case some years ago that you can't patent the breass cancer jean. I actually wrote an amachist brief to the supreme court on