People own individual animals, or even large groups of them, but no one claims ownership of an entire species ~ will that change?
If you’ve genetically engineered it yourself - does that mean you own all individual creatures created with that DNA?
Think this is an arcane concern? I bet the people who’ll want to make money out of this tech won’t be thinking the same way.
For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides



This news is the preamble to so many science-fiction horror stories, and the scariest thing they can mention is intellectual property laws.