Biotech Innovations and Fundamental Rights

Part I. Biotech Patents

1. Introduction
Paolo Veronesi

2. The Case against the Privatization of Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Myriad Genetics Controversy
Giorgio Resta

3. Patentability Requirements of Biotech Inventions at the European Patent Office: Ethical Issues
Giovanni Macchia

4. The Right to Access the Benefits of Science and Intellectual Property Rights
Aurora Plomer

5. “Ownership and Provenance” of Genetic Material in the Rules on Biotechnological Patents
Rosaria Romano

6. Biotechnology Patents Norms: Emerging Difficulties
Cecilia Zorzoli

7. From the Patentability of Living Matter to the Ethics of Biotechnological Innovation: the Person-Body Relationship
Silvia Zullo

8. Issues and Rights in DNA-based Inventions
Nicola Lucchi

Part II. Freedom of Scientific Research in Genetics

9. Bioethics and Freedom of Scientific Research in Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Biology
Roberto Gambari, Alessia Finotti

10. Freedom of Scientific Research in the Field of Genetics
Roberto Bin

11. Genetic Testing and Authentication of Paternity after Death of the Putative Father: the Bio-history and Its “Costs”
Giacomo D’Amico

12. The Legal Implications of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Ilja Richard Pavone

13. Preimplantation Diagnosis of the Embryo: Legislative Inflexibility in vitro and Attempts at Greater Flexibility in vivo
Stefano Agosta

14. Some Ethical and Regulatory Aspects Involved in Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DCGT)
María Jorqui Azofra

15. Adjusting the Individualistic Framework of Protection in Human Genetic Research
Marta Tomasi

16. Xenotransplantation and Human Rights
Paola Sobbrio

17. Pharmacogenetics and Fundamental Rights
Elena Falletti

18. Genetic Research and European Integration
Sara Lorenzon

Part III. Genetic Research and Protection of Individual Rights

19. Genetic Data in Forensic Science: Use, Misuse and Abuse
Guido Barbujani, Francesca Tassi

20. Genetic Research and Rights of the People Involved: from an Individual Approach to an Universal Perspective
Elisa Stefanini

21. Towards a Genetic Registry Office?
Ilaria Anna Colussi

22. Genetic Data Retention and the Italian Discipline of Acquittal: Database Improvement and the Fundamental Rights of the Individual
Francesco Morelli

23. Use of Genetic Data for Research Purposes and Consent: Love or Hate? A Proposal of Balance Taking Account of the “Specific Weight” of the Single Research
Giulia Vaccari

24. The habeas data in the Genetic Research: Intrinsic Limits and Threats from Outside
Monica Alessia Senor

25. First Observations on the Right to Development Approach to Informed Consent in Medical and Genetic Research
Lucia Busatta

26. Genetic Research and Protection of Individual Rights: a First Approach to the French Model
Elisabetta Pulice

27. Access to Genetic Resources in the Practices of States
Andrea Crescenzi

Keywords: Law, Constitutional Law, Human Genetics, Biochemistry, general