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A recent press release by My DNA Fragrance announces the latest fashion trend using the concept of DNA to seduce its target audience:

For consumers desiring exclusive personalized products, My DNA Fragrance™ introduces the first one-of-a-kind revolutionary fragrance that is uniquely formulated using each customer’s DNA profile as the blueprint to create a biologically seductive liquid treasure that caresses the secret desires of the mind. Unlike the 30,000 mass produced and celebrity endorsed fragrances on the market today, the fragrance offers you the opportunity to leave a memory of you in every room.

The actual technology behind this is doubtful, but it begs the question:

“What if my DNA stinks??”

At the age of 31, Marcos Suarez celebrated birthday this year with a cake decorated with a single candle. This candle signified this inaugural celebration with his birth family, with whom he’d been separated for the past 30 years.

Suarez is one of hundreds of Argentines who are discovering their biological roots in one of the most tumultuous times in Argentina’s history. He is one of the “Lost Grandchildren,” a man who as an infant was separated from his parents by the government because of his parents’ involvement in a student faction during the 1970s.

Suarez used DNA testing to identify and locate his biological family through the Abuelas campaign and the National Commission on the Right to Identity. He submitted his DNA samples for DNA profiling and potential matching with family DNA profiles.

DNA testing is based on DNA profiles, like those collected in Suarez’s case. These DNA samples are simple to collect through cheek (buccal) swabs. Analysis that compares the DNA samples will determine the probability that two or more people are biologically related.

You can learn more about DNA profiling and the technology behind it on the DNA Testing Services pages.

Sean “Diddy” Combs recently underwent paternity testing that proved he was the biological father of a 15-month-old girl, Chance. She was born to Combs’s longtime friend, Sarah Chapman. This is Combs’s fourth child.

This DNA test for Combs is just one of many celebrity paternity cases circulating in celebrity news. In recent months, the media has been sprinkled with parentage questions and paternity tests by Eddie Murphy, Goran Visnjic from “ER”, and Larry Birkhead. Even characters on TV shows such as “Ugly Betty” are facing paternity tests.

Because high quality paternity tests from DNA companies like Beta Paternity are so accessible, celebrities and non-celebrities alike are able to quickly turn to our services for quick and conclusive answers to paternity questions.

To learn more about our paternity and other DNA tests, please visit our DNA testing services pages now.

Did you know that Christopher Columbus’s origins are unknown?

Theories about his home and family have been debated for more than 500 years, and even today, scientists are trying to uncover his past. Through DNA testing, scientists are attempting to biologically connect alleged descendents of Columbus in hopes of identifying his birthplace and family.

The paternity of Columbus could be one of many different theories: He was a Genoese son of a wool-weaver; he was born out of wedlock to a Portuguese prince; he was a Jew whose parents converted to escape the Spanish Inquisition. The debate continues, but one scientist has collected buccal swabs for DNA testing from hundreds of Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, and Frenchmen in an attempt to uncover a clue. He believes that by biologically connecting people through their DNA, he may be able to shed a little light on this international mystery.

If Columbus had been born in the present day, he could simply order a DNA paternity test from Beta Genetics and collect his own DNA sample and the samples of his alleged father(s) or family members to identify a biological relationship. Of course, history may have been written a little differently if he weren’t alive in the 15th century to make his transatlantic voyages…

Regardless the outcome of his paternity test, Columbus remains an international hero to many around the world. Happy Columbus Day!

Parents of a 10-month-old girl decided to settle a bar bet once and for all by undergoing DNA testing to prove that their daughter was theirs. The couple, from Czechoslovakia, had been teased at a local bar about the difference in their looks and their daughter’s: They have dark hair while their daughter is blonde.

The couple ordered a DNA paternity test to settle the debate, and when they received their DNA test report, they were shocked by what they read: Their daughter shared NO genetic matches with her parents! Because of this surprising news, the parents have contacted the hospital where their baby was born to learn what happened to their biological daughter. The hospital is investigating, but no answers have surfaced yet.

A simple DNA paternity test, like what Beta Genetics offers, was all that was needed to uncover this serious situation. The parents simply contacted a laboratory and received a collection kit, collected DNA samples (most likely through painless buccal swabs), and returned their samples to the laboratory. Within in days, the couple had the valuable answers that DNA testing gave them and allowed them to pursue the important task of finding their biological daughter.

You can learn more about paternity tests and other genetic services on the Beta Genetics website to see how DNA testing can impact your life.

Two brothers met for the first time after spending more than 50 years apart. Rob Weissberg and George Legeros had no idea that the other existed until Rob’s wife started an Internet search. Rob knew that he had been adopted and that he had a biological sister, but he did not know anything about a brother.

Earlier this month, the two men were reunited in Richboro, Pennsylvania. As they talked, Rob learned that his biological mother had been poor and unwed when she gave birth and chose to place Rob into adoption.

The two men are confident that they are biologically related (George says Rob’s nose proves they have the same father), but they have chosen to undergo DNA siblingship testing to confirm their relationship.

Beta Genetics offers both full- and half-siblingship DNA tests that can identify the likelihood that two people are related to one or both parents. Samples are collected through painless buccal swabs, and results are typically ready within 14 days. To learn more about siblingship tests and other DNA tests, please visit Beta’s DNA Testing Services page.

With one look at a piece of paper, one father’s life changed forever.

After six years of fatherhood to his son, Joshua, Shaun Broadwell, a man in the United Kingdom, received DNA paternity test results that revealed that he was not Joshua’s biological father. Within a week of the results, his ex-girlfriend, Joshua’s mother, informed Broadwell that he could no longer see Joshua. Had Broadwell suspected his girlfriend’s infidelity earlier, he might have been able to prevent this heartache by undergoing the paternity DNA test sooner.

DNA paternity tests can be performed at any age. During the time that Joshua was conceived, Broadwell and his ex-girlfriend (Joshua’s mother) were separated. They reunited, and within four weeks, his ex-girlfriend informed him that she was pregnant. If Broadwell had doubts during that time, he could have asked his ex-girlfriend to undergo a prenatal paternity test or have had a DNA testing sample collected at the time of Joshua’s birth. Paternity test results could have been returned to them within days of Joshua’s birth.

Beta Genetics offers paternity DNA testing services through prenatal or buccal swab sample collection. This means that you can test the paternity of your child as early as the tenth week of pregnancy. Contact one of our knowledgeable and caring DNA consultants today at 1-800-798-3810 to learn more.

In a recent case in South Africa, a woman discovered that for a DNA paternity test, her child’s alleged father switched his own DNA sample with a DNA sample from his girlfriend to ensure he was excluded as the child’s biological father. Although the test initially excluded him as the biological father, the laboratory recognized a problem with the sample and retested. The retested alleged father proved to be the biological father.

To catch such sample mix-ups, the laboratory at Beta Genetics tests the amelogenin locus of each sample. This DNA marker identifies the gender of the person’s submitting the sample. By analyzing the amelogenin locus, the lab may be alerted of situations of sample swaps by people of different genders. This also ensures that the lab is able to identify which sample belongs to which tested party if they are mislabeled or mixed up by the client. This means that if you were a woman participating in a paternity test with your son and his alleged father, the laboratory would expect two male samples and one female sample. If the laboratory received two female samples and one male sample, it would mean that the alleged father’s DNA was actually from a woman, not from him, assuming that your son’s DNA was correctly collected.

By testing the amelogenin locus, Beta is using one more safeguard to ensure accurate paternity test results.

In Rural India, the wife of a 90-year-old man has given birth to a son. The fourth wife of Nanu Ram Jogi had given birth to eight daughters, but Jogi wanted to keep trying for a son. With the latest addition of his newborn son, Jogi claims to have fathered 21 children.

Because of his age, Jogi has become a local hero of sorts. Until his son’s birth, the oldest man to father a child in the region was 88 years old. To confirm Jogi’s story, health workers will administer a paternity test for Jogi, his wife, and their son.

In light of our most recent blog, this article is just another example of how DNA is not affected by age and can be tested at any point during life. Paternity testing can occur at any age, even prenatally or posthumously.

To learn more about Beta Genetics’s paternity test, visit our DNA testing services page. You can also learn more about DNA and DNA testing technology by visiting our laboratory section.

Earlier this month, a much contested paternity question in the UK was answered.

79-year-old Diana Northcott announced that one of her two sons, David, was not the biological child of her husband. If her claim were proven true, David would be cut out of his paternal grandfather’s inheritance of more than $600,000. Diana sought a paternity test for David and his godfather, respected doctor and former head of the British Medical Association (BMA) John Havard. Diana claimed that she approached Havard 40 years ago, telling him that she was in a terrible marriage, that her husband was infertile, and that she wanted a sibling her for only child, Adrian. Havard publicly dismissed her claim that he fathered David, repeating on numerous occasions that Diana was a “fantasist.”

After months of protest, the 83-year-old Havard consented to a paternity test only after he conferred with David. Paternity DNA tests proved that Havard is David’s biological father. 40 years of lies were over.

Click here to read more about this story: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2237945.ece

Because DNA does not change over time, a simple paternity test was able to accurately and quickly identify Havard as David’s father more than 40 years after he met Diana. DNA testing is not confined to a single age group or time period: DNA testing can be performed on anyone of any age, even before birth.

You can learn more about the standard paternity test, prenatal paternity testing, and many more DNA tests offered by Beta Genetics by visiting the DNA Testing Services page now.