Who owns you?

the corporate gold-rush to patent your genes

by David R. Koepsell

2009 187 pages eng

"Surely you own your own genes, don't you? Think again. Now that the race to map the human genome is over, another competition has ensued. Biotech companies, universities, and research institutions, sensing a biological goldmine, have been engaged in a furious scramble to parent human genes. Present…