ETC Group 3 March 2008 www.etcgroup.org Special Report on Human Genomics Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and the Myth of Personalized Medicine: Spit Kits, SNP Chips and Human Genomics The topic of this report 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. Issue & Impact: “Personalized medicine†is based on the belief that we can – or, one day soon will be able to – detect, prevent and treat disease according to an individual’s genetic profile. “Gene-informed,â€[1] individualized medicine is being touted as a boon to health and longevity around the world, though its efficacy and usefulness have yet to be demonstrated.... Read more
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Reporte especial sobre genómica humanaPruebas personales de ADN y el mito de la medicina personalizada:kits para muestras de saliva, chips SNP y genómica humana
El tema de este reporte es la industria de las pruebas genéticas personales, que promete a los consumidores darles una individual para mantener la salud asà como un “horóscopo†basado en la genética para predecir enfermedades futuras. <!--EndFragment-->
Tema e impactos: la “medicina personalizada†se basa en la creencia de que podemos —o que pronto algún dÃa podremos— detectar, prevenir y curar las... Read more Categories: |
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In this 100th issue of the ETC Communiqué we update Oligopoly, Inc. – our ongoing series tracking corporate concentration in the life industry. We also analyze the past three decades of agribusiness efforts to monopolize the 24% of living nature that has been commodified, and expose a new strategy to capture the remaining three-quarters that has, until now, remained beyond the market economy. To download the full 48-page report, click on 'Download PDF,' above.
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(PDF2 above contains the complete poster) News Release Coalition Against Biopiracy Wednesday, 21 May 2008 www.captainhookawards.org www.etcgroup.org Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy 2008The Coalition Against Biopiracy* exposes Hooks and celebrates CogsWinners announced at the UN’s Biodiversity Convention in Bonn Today the world learned which corporations, governments, institutions and individuals earned a spot in biopiracy’s hall of shame when the Coalition Against Biopiracy (CAB) announced the winners of the 5th Captain Hook Awards at a lunch-time ceremony during the Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Bonn, Germany. “The Maritim Hotel, where the CBD meets this week and next, was the perfect place to... Read more Categories: |
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Grupo de Acción sobre Erosión, Tecnología y Concentración en el Foro Social de las Américas
En el marco del III Foro Social Américas, a celebrarse en la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, del 7 al 12 de octubre, el Grupo ETC organiza dos talleres sobre nuevas tecnologías a los que le invitamos cordialmente a participar. Se trata de nuevas tecnologías que están avanzando agresivamente, con poco o ningún control social, pero con impactos potenciales significativos en las economías, la sociedades y el ambiente. Compartiremos información, seguida de preguntas y debate abierto. 1. Impactos de las nuevas tecnologías: agrocombustibles, cambio climático y geoingeniería Presentación: Silvia Ribeiro y Verónica Villa, Grupo ETC México Miércoles 8 de octubre de las 14 a las 17 horas, Edificio... Read more Categories: |
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ETC Group News Release November 13, 2008 www.etcgroup.org
Who Owns Nature? New report warns of corporate concentration, commodification of nature; highlights global resistance grounded in "Food Sovereignty" ETC Group today releases a 48-page report, "Who Owns Nature?" on corporate concentration in commercial food, farming, health and the strategic push to commodify the planet's remaining natural resources. In a world where market research is becoming increasingly proprietary and pricey, ETC Group's report names names, discloses market share and provides top 10 industry rankings up and down the corporate food chain. Not all the corporations identified in ETC Group's new report are household names, but collectively they control a staggering share of the commercial products found on industrial farms, in our refrigerators and medicine cabinets. An international advocacy... Read more Categories: |
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Adiós Dolly… ¡Hola Sintia!El Instituto J. Craig Venter busca patentar el primer ser vivo artificial creado en un laboratorioEl Grupo ETC apelará legalmente contra las patentes sobre “Sintias” (Organismos vivos sintetizados en laboratorio) Diez años después del nacimiento de Dolly, la oveja clonada, el Instituto J. Craig Venter ha solicitado una patente sobre una nueva bomba biotecnológica: la primer especie hecha completamente en un laboratorio. Se trata de una bacteria construida totalmente con ADN sintético. El Instituto Venter —que toma el nombre de su creador y financiador, J. Craig Venter, el científico que encabezó el sector privado en la carrera para mapear el genoma humano— ha solicitado patentes en todo el mundo sobre lo que ha bautizado como “Micoplasma... Read more Categories: |
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Documento de contexto: Solicitud de patente del J. Craig Venter Institute sobre la primera especie del mundo sintetizada totalmente en laboratorio7 de junio de 2007 www.etcgroup.org El 31 de mayo de 2007 la Oficina de Patentes y Marcas Registradas de Estados Unidos (US PTO por sus siglas en inglés) publicó calladamente una memorable solicitud de patente que señala un parteaguas en la evolución como la conocemos. La solicitud de patente número 20070122826, titulada “Minimal bacterial genome” (genoma bacteriano mínimo), describe la creación en laboratorio del primer organismo vivo totalmente sintético; una bacteria nueva cuya información genética proviene de ADN sintetizado químicamente. Reclama derechos de propiedad exclusivos sobre “un organismo que puede crecer y reproducirse” hecho con un... Read more Categories: |
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ETC Group News Release 8 December 2007
Extreme Monopoly: Venter’s Team Makes Vast Patent Grab on Synthetic Genomes Six months ago ETC Group exposed the Venter Institute’s controversial patent applications on the world’s first human-made living organism built entirely from synthetic DNA (dubbed “Synthia†by ETC Group). Newly published patent claims reveal an even bigger grab for ownership of synthetic life.
A suite of patent applications lodged by J. Craig Venter and his colleagues claims exclusive monopoly on a wide swath of synthetic biology and demonstrate a not-so-subtle move to position Venter’s company, Synthetic Genomics, Inc., as the ‘microbesoft’ of synthetic life. Find out about Categories: |
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La propriété intellectuelle et ses effets sur le commerce, la biodiversité et le monde rural Click here to obtain a copy through the IDRC web site. L'aboutissement récent de la négociation du GATT et la signature de la Convention sur la diversité biologique ont placé les droits de propriété intellectuelle au premier plan des relations Nord-Sud. Les décisions prises en la matière, notamment en ce qui a trait aux ressources du règne végétal, ont d'importantes implications pour la sécurité alimentaire, l'agriculture, le développement rural et l'environnement de tous les pays, au Nord comme au Sud. Pour ces derniers en particulier, l'incidence de la propriété intellectuelle sur les agriculteurs, les sociétés rurales et la biodiversité... Read moreCategories: |
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