Posted on 10/19/2011 4:59:44 PM PDT by decimon
IBS all the time, no one seems to notice.
You can patent bacteria?? Wow! I guess most anything can be patented then.
You can patent bacteria?? Wow! I guess most anything can be patented then.
Seeing is believing.
Identification and Characterisation of an Iron-Responsive Candidate Probiotic
Competing interests: TC and JB have a patent applied (GB 1112487.2) for "A Streptococcus thermophilus isolate that can increase growth rate in response to increased iron availability." The bacterial strain has been deposited as a patent deposit in a culture collection ahead of filing and will be made freely available to researchers by the authors. The authors confirm that they will adhere to the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors confirm that they have no other competing interests.With PLoS, Public Library of Science, journals, if you have the title within quotation marks, BINGO, you have a FReebie.
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