{"id":207982,"date":"2025-03-07T06:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/who-gets-ownership-of-useful-genetic-data"},"modified":"2025-03-07T06:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:28:55","slug":"who-gets-ownership-of-useful-genetic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/who-gets-ownership-of-useful-genetic-data","title":{"rendered":"Who gets ownership of useful genetic data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/who-gets-ownership-of-useful-genetic-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cow D lived on a dairy farm in New Zealand. The animal looked like the typical black-and-white cow farmers raise for milk, except for one thing: Researchers had outfitted Cow D with an artificial fistula\u2014a hole offering them a way to reach the microbes inhabiting the animal\u2019s bathtub-size stomach. But it\u2019s what happened next that offers a porthole into the global debate over the use of genetic data.<\/p>\n<p>In the spring of 2009, Samantha Noel, then a doctoral researcher at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, reached into Cow D\u2019s rumen and plucked out a strain of Lachnospiraceae bacterium, later dubbed ND2006. Another team of geneticists sequenced the microbe\u2019s complete set of genes, or genome, and uploaded the information, which was then shared with GenBank, a public database run by the US National Institutes of Health. If genes are the book of life, then this process was like adding a digital copy to an online library. In policy circles, these lines of code go by another name: digital sequence information, or DSI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cow D lived on a dairy farm in New Zealand. The animal looked like the typical black-and-white cow farmers raise for milk, except for one thing: Researchers had outfitted Cow D with an artificial fistula\u2014a hole offering them a way to reach the microbes inhabiting the animal\u2019s bathtub-size stomach. But it\u2019s what happened next that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412,1495,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics","category-health","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}