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Worried your sweetie is cheating? Forget about hacking his e-mail account. Now you can have his underwear tested for interloping DNA and settle the question once and for all.
A company in Arizona is helping suspicious spouses sneak a peek into the microscopic layers of their loved one’s underthings to help bust cheaters. But isn’t it kind of shady, dishonest behavior to steal your partner’s unmentionables and secretly mail them to a DNA lab? Talk about your violations of trust.
The company, Chromosomal Laboratories, Inc., is also giving away paternity tests for Father’s Day. ‘Cause that’s totally not creepy. Um.
Technology is a wonderful thing in most ways — but it’s posing new challenges for sperm donors and their desire for anonymity. Rachael Lehmann-Haupt has an interesting piece up on Slate’s Double X today about how DNA testing and Google can lead to parents and children tracking down their sperm donor, whether he wanted to be found or not.
She follows the case of a donor from California who donated when he was young, and left a little bit of information in his donor profile — namely, that his father was in the Baseball Hall of Fame and his mother was a nurse, his birthdate, and his college major. Along with those things, he made it clear he didn’t want to be found. Continue reading »
Some high school students are clearly destined for greatness. You just know that they’ll end up making it big in Hollywood or that they’ll design wonderful buildings or that they’ll make some big scientific discovery. And some high school students don’t bother waiting for graduation; they get started right away. Such is the case with 17-year-old Brenda Tan and 18-year-old Matt Cost of New York. As part of a science project, the two students have uncovered what may turn out to be a new species of cockroach.
Well, hello daddy. It looks like a certain famous politian may indeed have another mouth to feed. And all bets are saying that the baby will have some pretty expensive tastes. The National Enquire is reporting that a ‘secret’ DNA proves that John Edwards is the biological father of his former lover Rielle Hunter’s baby girl. Now, before you roll your eyes and dismiss Continue reading »
Last week, the 50-year-old case of Stephen Damman captured everyone’s attention. A Michigan man, John Barnes, contacted Damman’s father, believing he was actually Stephen.
All kinds of media attention followed, until DNA tests revealed that there was no way Barnes and Damman were related.
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