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by refurb 3911 days ago
Odds are the "make a cure from it" part would be a human invention and therefore patentable.

That's a use patent and it's inferior to a composition patent.

Look at what's happening to Pfizer in the UK. They had a use patent on Lyrica, but no composition patent on it. That means anyone is free to make the drug. You can't really stop a doctor from using a drug for a certain disease if it's freely available.