Description

In the coming months, ETC Group will publish a series of reports on the impact and implications of
human genomics. The topic of the first report in the series is the burgeoning Direct-to-Consumer (DTC)
genetic testing industry, which is promising consumers a guidebook for maintaining health as well as a
gene-based horoscope predicting future illness. The second report will examine large-scale human
genomics projects and their relation to biopiracy. A third report will examine the corporate context – the
industry players vying to control and profit from the genomics revolution.