(12/16/21) When attorney Chris Hansen discovered that women were being charged exorbitant fees to test for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, tests they desperately needed—all because Myriad Genetics had patented BRCA genes, he sued them. In his new book The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA, attorney and human genetics expert Jorge L. Contreras tells the tale of how Hansen and his team of ACLU lawyers took their case all the way to the Supreme Court. Find out who owns the right to our own genetic code in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.