By Ricki Lewis – Genetic Literacy Project 06/18/2019 \”… If my father were alive to open an enticing shiny package and “discover what he’s made of” by sending in a spit sample, he’d find that it’s not what I am made of. He’d discover that, biologically speaking, he isn’t my father at all. But he […]
By Lynda Weeds – WPMT FOX43 06/10/2019 \”… It took 40 years to find him, but thanks to DNA testing, Susan Kissinger`s family just got a whole lot bigger. …\” Read the entire article: https://fox43.com/2019/06/10/lancaster-county-woman-uses-ancestry-com-to-find-biological-dad-spent-40-years-searching/ info
By Michael Cook – BioEdge 06/09/2019 \”… A senior British health official has reminded Britons of a bitter consequence of genomic medicine – misattributed paternity. This is the technical term for a man who unknowingly raises a child which is not his. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/when-genetic-tests-are-bombshells/13089 info
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By Dave Roos – HowStuffWorks 06/11/2019 \”… Until the advent of super-accurate DNA testing in the 1980s, there was no way to be 100-percent certain that a \”baby\’s daddy\” was in fact the biological father. But that didn\’t stop people from trying. …\” Read the entire article: https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/history-paternity-testing.htm info
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By Brinkwire 06/11/2019 \”… As a young Jewish girl, Dani Shapiro always felt different. Years later she found out why… She reveals what she learned about family, identity – and the hard truths of DNA tests. …\” Read the entire article: http://en.brinkwire.com/canada/dani-shapiro-science-will-bring-an-end-to-these-family-secrets/ info
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By Nara B. Milanich – Time 06/10/2019 \”… But while scientific research can take credit for the former, the media played a key role in the latter, by inventing something perhaps even more potent: paternity testing as a cultural phenomenon. …\” Read the entire article: https://time.com/5603888/paternity-test-history/ info
By Karen Brown – The New York Times 05/11/2019 \”… Three weeks after we sent in my father’s cheek swab, the results came back. There was no genetic match; Sandy and Rex did not appear on each other’s profiles. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/dna-tests-testing.html info
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By Fran Maye – Daily Local News 06/05/2019 \”… It wasn’t until age 15 that Kennedy found out he was adopted. His mother and father who were raising them went through a divorce, and told him he was adopted. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.dailylocal.com/news/local/after-years-local-man-reunited-with-his-birth-mother-following/article_9e31ca42-8792-11e9-9c27-6b9d82d70302.html info
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By Catherine Minolli – Tri-City Times Online 06/05/2019 \”… \”She told me the man who was my father, who I carried his name, was not my real father,\” Chris recalls. \”She said \’I\’m not sure who your father is.\’\” …\” Read the entire article: http://www.tricitytimes-online.com/Articles-News-i-2019-06-05-227686.112113-DNA-discovery.html info
By Jacqueline Mroz – The New York Times 06/03/2019 \”… As genetic testing becomes more widespread, parents are finding that sperm used in artificial insemination did not come from the donors they chose. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/health/sperm-banks-fertility-artificial-insemination.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_190604 info
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