Archive for March, 2007

09 Mar

Paternity testing intentionally falsified

People sometimes doubt about the accuracy of DNA paternity tests, and these doubts are centered on the likelihood of sharing genetic markers with other people. However, the procedure of taking the sample is often overlooked although it is a much more likely source of problems. A case reported by a DNA lab from the University […]

01 Mar

Boy or Girl? DNA defeats ultrasound

Predicting the baby’s gender
Knowing the gender of the baby is the first thing we think about when we learn we are having a child. Everybody knows that an ultrasound will give us the answer about the gender of the baby sooner or later, but not much earlier than week 20, exactly half way during […]

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