A new study that predicts that Americans could be spending $25 billion a year by the end of this decade on genetics testing. It's believed that the prospect of being able to sequence whole genomes at an affordable cost now is really a gamechanger.
A study by the UnitedHealth Group released this morning says we spent about $5 billion on genetic tests in 2010 and could spend $25 billion by the end of the decade.
Researchers at Yale are wondering if spending behavior has something to do with genetics. We learn how monkeys and humans are similar — and different — when it comes to plunking down cash.
