Churches oppose patent (on life).Ottawa The Canadian Council of Churches The Canadian Council of Churches/Le conseil canadien des églises is an ecumenical Christian forum of churches in Canada. It was founded on 27 September 1944 at Yorkminster Baptist Church in Toronto, Ontario. and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) is a national parachurch association of over 140 affiliated church denominations, ministry organizations, educational institutions, and 1,000 local church congregations. welcomed a Supreme Court decision Dec. 5 not to allow the patenting of higher life forms -- such as the Harvard mouse -- in Canada. The CCC CCC A very speculative grade assigned to a debt obligation by a rating agency. Such a rating indicates default or considerable doubt that interest will be paid or principal repaid. Also called Caa. and the EFC EFC Expected Family Contribution EFC Expect(ed) Further Clearance EFC Evangelical Fellowship of Canada EFC Evangelical Free Church EFC Eastfield College EFC Everton Football Club EFC Electronic Fee Collection intervened together before the court. The extension of patentability to higher life forms would have been an expansion of patent law into new areas of significance for public policy in Canada, said Canon Eric Beresford, consultant to the CCC and ethics consultant with General Synod The General Synod is the title of the governing body of some church organizations. Church of England In the Church of England, General Synod was instituted in 1970 and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had . "Such changes need full public debate and should take place in Parliament and not the courts. Harvard University modified life, they did not create it," he said. Harvard scientists altered the genetic composition of a mouse so that it and its offspring would develop cancer more frequently and predictably. The university applied for a patent not only on the process by which the mouse is modified, but also on the gene introduced. Staff and the EFC |
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