The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that human genes may not be patented. Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan, a research professor of genome ethics, law and policy at Duke, is available to discuss the decision after 2 p.m. today. Dr. Robert Cook-DeeganResearch professor of public policy, Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & PolicyCo-author of four amicus curiae briefs in the Myriad case; author of "The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome."Bob.cd@duke.eduhttp://www.genome.duke.edu/directory/faculty/cook-deegan/ _ _ _ _ Duke experts on a variety of other topics can be found at http://newsoffice.duke.edu/resources-media/faculty-experts.