"This NABC 4 optional symposium was co-sponsored by the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council and the Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics at Texas A&M University. Special funding was provided by the Institute for Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University."
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Overview: ethics and patenting of transgenic organisms / Gary E. Varner -- Owning varieties of life / Edwin Hettinger -- Concepts of property and the biotechnology debate / Paul B. Thompson -- Barriers to patent protection for biotechnology and alternatives for removing them / Martin L. McGregor -- Economic impacts of regulations governing the development and dissemination of agricultural biotechnologies / Judith I. Stallmann -- Public perceptions of agricultural biotechnology: an overview of research to date / Don E. Albrecht -- What obligations have scientists to transgenic animals? / Gary Comstock -- Biotechnology and sustainable agriculture / Martha Crouch