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By Christine Younan  – Daily Star 06/18/2019 \”… When they were trying to conceive, the husband was diagnosed with azoospermia in December, which is blockage of the pipes. Months after discovering his condition, his wife fell pregnant and now he’s regarding the miracle pregnancy a bit suspicious. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/786241/Reddit-user-pregnant-wife-cheating-infertile-man-baby-marriage info

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

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

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

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

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

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