It’s not that personal DNA testing isn’t a here-and-now business, it is that only one in ten people want to learn how their DNA impacts their exit strategy from life. Disease prediction is not a big sell. Duh!

But almost everyone wants to learn about their non-disease DNA, because this tells them more about who they are and how to live better right now.

Fredric Abramson

Interesting. So what is your take on this? I have been saying that the first companies to make money off of any kind of direct-to-consumer genetic testing would likely be “recreational” applications–in particular ones involving genealogy, ancestry tracing, artistic products and celebrities.

This truly is sad. I had a nephew who died of AIDS many years ago when he was only nineteen years old. He contracted the virus from a bad blood transfusion that happened before they even KNEW that AIDS existed. Any research done to prevent/treat/cure AIDS should be aggressively supported and encouraged.