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Identigene Begins Nationwide Over-the-Counter Retail Sales of DNA ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Wire (press release),...was founded in 1993 and was the first DNA testing laboratory in the world to commercially use modern STR technology for paternity testing.

easyDNA Launches Operations in South Africa  -  25 Mar 2008
Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung),25.03.2008 09:36:07 DNA paternity testing firm easyDNA has expanded its operations into South Africa, the first country in Africa to be serviced by the

Drug stores to offer kits for paternity testing  -  25 Mar 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,By Tom Harvey Posted: 8:35 PM- Natalie Maynes and her boyfriend were tired of waiting for the state of Washington to order a paternity test to prove that he

Forensic Sciences Centre building scientific solutions for every ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Barbados Advocate,THE Barbadian public can feel free to access the services of the local Forensic Sciences Centre, which include paternity testing, forensic toxicology,

Eastern Biotech Introduces Paternity Testing – Peace of Mind Test ...  -  Mar 13, 2008
Newswire Today (press release),Paternity testing has become a lot easier and affordable over the past few years due to advances in DNA science. Although an estimated 200000 DNA tests are

Fathers advocacy groups supports compulsory DNA testing bill  -  Mar 19, 2008
TV3 News,A group that helps men deal with the Family Courts is supporting a Bill on paternity testing saying children have a right to know who their parents are.

Drug testing company trying to keep youth safe  -  Mar 15, 2008
Slidell Sentry News,Her company provides drug and paternity testing, and, according to Vincent, business has, unfortunately, been good. "Parents are always asking about drug

Bill Requires Pre-Child Support Paternity Test  -  Mar 18, 2008
WSMV,GA Hardaway, would require paternity testing before a court could render an order of child support. Hardaway said he doesn’t understand why state law hasn’t

Paternity testing bill is an affront to mothers  -  Feb 26, 2008
The Tennessean,Hardaway’s Mandatory Paternity Testing bill. This legislation will require a paternity test for every birth in Tennessee, regardless of marital status and

easyDNA Concludes Another Successful Year of Operations  -  Mar 18, 2008
MediaSyndicate (press release)DNA paternity testing firm easyDNA have concluded another successful year of operations and looking forward to expanding further in 2008.

WHO'S YOUR DADDY?  -  Mar 1, 2008
Lancaster Newspapers,The demand for biological family relationship testing has grown so dramatically that a company called Identigene now offers home paternity testing kits,

Who’s Your Daddy?  -  Mar 9, 2008
MedHeadlines,Paternity testing procedures administered in a clinical setting instead of in the home often include professional counseling as needed.

Barker responds to Turner's DNA Bill  -  Mar 19, 2008
Scoop.co.nz,The issue of mandatory samples for paternity testing could involve the use of force where a child for whatever reason does not wish to give a sample.

Applied Biosystems Responds to Global Challenge of Food Safety  -  Mar 19, 2008
Business Wire (press release),...which we refer to as “applied markets,� such as the fields of: human identity testing (forensic and paternity testing); biosecurity, which refers to

New caterer to feed the prisoners  -  Mar 19, 2008
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal,Mitchell Keyes and Van Hopkins, representatives of Advanced Drug, Alcohol & Paternity Testing Service (ADAPTS) appeared before the board to discuss several

Key Internet Genetics Resources for the Clinician  -  Mar 18, 2008
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),Others tests, at least currently, are less applicable to health care, such as nutrigenomics, ancestry, or paternity testing. Even when a clinician can

Bill: Mandatory Paternity Tests Before Birth Certificates Issued  -  Mar 6, 2008
NewsChannel5.com,It's not just the price of paternity testing that upsets some people. "I do not support a paternity bill," said state Rep. Sherry Jones, a Nashville

State GOP resorted to swiftboating Obama  -  Mar 2, 2008
The Tennessean,26 letter, "Paternity testing bill is an affront to mothers," I recall the national headline and public outrage when, by error, a hospital maternity ward

Hastings MP "has his head in the sand"  -  Mar 13, 2008
All About Hawke's Bay,Barker about why he has ignored recommendations from both the Law Commission and Law Society to empower the Family Court to order paternity testing.

Louise is driven by science  -  Mar 12, 2008
Sunderland Echo,...including the Geneblitz DNA analysis and laboratory service and dadcheck paternity testing service for the public and legal profession.

Lawyer pleads to adoption deception  -  Mar 5, 2008
Oneonta Daily Star,Supreme Court Judge Michael Coccoma ordered paternity testing. Breen said the tests indicated a more-than 99 percent chance that the teenage boy was the

Baby Daddy Drama  -  Feb 29, 2008
FayObserver.com,Here's the deal: Some brainiac Tennessee legislator has proposed a bill that makes paternity testing mandatory in Tennessee before a father's name will be

Dan Gross: No more T's from Morris Levin  -  Mar 19, 2008
Philadelphia Daily News,Penn-grad-turned-serious- journalist-turned-paternity-testing talk-show host Maury Povich and wife Connie Chung hung out at Atlantic City's Borgata over the

Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos  -  Mar 2, 2008
Wired News...hints that the reaction can be used in paternity testing. In 1973, this spectacular demonstration was perfected by Thomas Briggs and Warren Rauscher,

The Love of Pod  -  Feb 25, 2008
Times Online,For without the pea, treasures such as the DNA database, paternity testing and Jurassic Park would have been denied us. It was through thousands of

Zoo’s ‘Virgin Dragon’ give birth to hatchling number two  -  Feb 26, 2008
Liverpool Daily Post,This “paternity� testing proved Flora was indeed both the “mother� and the “father� of the fertile eggs. The incubation period for Komodo eggs is between

Clampdown on ‘unreliable’ paternity tests  -  Feb 10, 2008
Times Online,Paternity testing services are to be subject to Government regulations amid concerns that misleading results have been given to parents and presented as

Bill would allow for mandatory paternity testing  -  Feb 5, 2008
Ha'aretz,...hemophilia, hypercholesterolemia, blood coagulation, etc. In addition, genetic testing is applied to paternity testing and to forensics.

Suspicion replaced by the near-certainties of DNA  -  Feb 10, 2008
Times Online,Paternity testing involves comparing the DNA of a child with that of the possible father. Everyone inherits two sets of genetic material – one from each

Sexual Offender Identification in Kenya Blazes New Trail  -  Feb 12, 2008
Forensic,In addition, DNA Solutions Pty of Australia, also represented in East and Central Africa by CSI Nairobi, will undertake Free DNA Paternity Testing for all

Abortions: Should the father have some say?  -  Feb 9, 2008
Helium,...say as to whether or not the mother aborts, it must be clear who the father is, so there must be pre-partum paternity testing to determine his identity.

Wall Street News Alert Reports Thursday's Stocks to Watch: UDTT ...  -  Jan 31, 2008
FOXBusiness...which we refer to as "applied markets," such as the fields of: human identity testing (forensic and paternity testing); biosecurity, which refers to

Czech firms offering DNA test may violate privacy  -  Jan 29, 2008
Czech Happenings,Prague- The firms that offer DNA tests, such as paternity testing, may not always proceed in line with the law on personal data protection, Bozena Cejkova

Man turns self in on sex charge  -  Feb 12, 2008
Winston-Salem Journal,The schools learned that paternity testing had been done to determine if Ray was the father of a child, according to Daniel Cockman, the superintendent of

Texas Dance Teacher Faces Sex Charges  -  Jan 25, 2008
The Associated PressCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A 41-year-old female dance instructor whose infant daughter underwent court-ordered paternity testing has been charged with

DNA Findings Will Revolutionize Cat Health  -  Jan 31, 2008
WIS,Randall Smith, spokesman for DDC Veterinary, a division of DNA Diagnostics Center in Fairfield, Ohio, oversaw King Wu of Zhou's DNA paternity testing.

Applied Biosystems Group and Celera Group Second Quarter Fiscal ...  -  Jan 15, 2008
Business Wire (press release),These include the fields of human identity testing (forensic and paternity testing); biosecurity, which refers to products needed in response to the threat

Prosecutor opens office to help Phoenix residents  -  Jan 17, 2008
Indianapolis Star,Mothers will be able to meet with members of our Child Support Division who can help arrange for paternity testing and assist in establishing and collecting

Parents Debate Custody Rights at State Capitol  -  Jan 30, 2008
State Journal,The other two bills being considered deal with false reporting of abuse and violence and paternity testing. To see them just click on the link below.

Bail increased for suspect in killing of teen mom  -  Jan 22, 2008
phillyBurbs.com,...he believes he may be the child’s biological father, prosecutors said. Investigators have taken DNA samples from both suspects for paternity testing.

Search continues for teen mother's body; uncle claims he's father  -  Jan 22, 2008
phillyBurbs.com,They have taken DNA samples from both suspects for paternity testing. Authorities said Felicia Mikels put her baby in a stroller and walked to a bowling

Over-the-counter DNA home-test kits have hit the market  -  Dec 26, 2007
Providence Journal,...“We’ve offered paternity testing since 1993. We developed a successful online distribution for paternity kits. As we looked at our activity, we identified a

DNA Of A New Breed Of Firms Actually Is DNA, Genetic Code  -  Dec 21, 2007
CNNMoney.comSorenson concluded that the biggest customer base for the paternity-testing product isn't the participants -- it's mothers and grandmothers who buy the test

Applied Biosystems Promotes Mark Stevenson to President and Chief ...  -  Dec 29, 2007
PR-USA.net (press release),...which we refer to as “applied markets,� such as the fields of: human identity testing (forensic and paternity testing); biosecurity, which refers to

Sorenson Genomics to Bring the First-Ever Retail DNA Test to Market  -  Dec 4, 2007
PR-USA.net (press release),Identigene, a Sorenson Genomics’ company, was the first DNA testing laboratory in the world to use modern STR technology for paternity testing.

Cuyahoga County Coroner's office authorized to do paternity tests  -  Dec 6, 2007
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com,The coroner's office has received accreditation from the American Association of Blood Banks to perform on-site DNA paternity testing, spokesman Powell

Mummy baby DNA tests fail  -  Dec 4, 2007
Concord Monitor,The company typically handles paternity testing for court cases. This was their first mummy. First the company took one of the mummy's fingers,

Genetic Testing Helps People Discover Ancestry, Dispels Notions of ...  -  Dec 4, 2007
ABC NewsFormerly specializing in paternity testing, Sorensen spent $40 million building the largest DNA database in the country. Over the last seven years,

Hunt For Orgy Dad  -  Dec 1, 2007
Glasgow Daily Record,EIGHT men who had sex with a swinger at a party will have to undergo paternity testing to find out who is the father of her baby.

Definition of fatherhood being redefined by courts  -  Dec 9, 2007
Newsday,The judge declined to order paternity testing, which SK wanted, and PD did not object to, saying the test results could traumatize the boy.

RU Daddy Paternity Advocate Group Helps Fathers Caught up in ...  -  Dec 14, 2007
PR-USA.net (press release),..."In our research and interviews with fathers across the nation, our organization found that many alleged fathers had obtained DNA paternity testing

Immokalee man sentenced for having sex with teen  -  Dec 20, 2007
Naples Daily News,She also said she was pregnant and Pascual, who admitted to having sex with her, agreed to paternity testing to prove he wasn’t the father of the child.

Special Alert Stock Watch: EXPT! December 5, 2007  -  Dec 5, 2007
Market Wire (press release)In the human identity area, Orchid Cellmark provides DNA testing services for forensic investigation, paternity testing and family relationship analysis and

CSI: San Diego State chemistry  -  Dec 9, 2007
Daily Aztec,McNamara did an internship at a police department and she's currently an intern in a paternity testing laboratory.

Paternity Testing Kit Sold Over the Counter  -  28 Nov 2007
MyFox Los Angeles,Just as crews are mopping up the latest wildfire in Malibu strong winds are expected to return to Southern California prompting a new fire watch.

Applied Biosystems Expands Its Line of sirnas for Biomedical Research  -  28 Nov 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),...which we refer to as "applied markets," such as the fields of: human identity testing (forensic and paternity testing); biosecurity, which refers to

Paternity testing kit gets trial run in stores  -  Nov 26, 2007
Houston Chronicle,Rite Aid stores in California, Washington and Oregon recently started carrying the paternity testing kits, spokeswoman Ashley Flower confirmed.

local franchise conducts dna testing  -  Nov 26, 2007
Kansas City Star,...family relationship, infidelity and forensics issues. about 85 percent to 90 percent of the business is paternity testing. owner’s role: “i manage all

call for paternity tests at birth  -  Nov 19, 2007
New Zealand Herald,...an australian fathers' rights group believes paternity testing should be compulsory when a child is born. photo / reuters a fathers' rights group believes

call for more paternity testing powers  -  Nov 18, 2007
Newstalk ZB,...united future is calling for the family court to have the power to order paternity testing. it comes in response to data from an australian dna testing firm

paternity shock begets push to test babies  -  Nov 17, 2007
The Age,...men's groups are calling for mandatory paternity testing of all newborns after revelations that one in four australian men who submit paternity tests

paternity tests in question  -  Nov 19, 2007
TVNZ,...turner says the figures draw attention to the fact courts do not have the power to order paternity testing. hands on equal parenting trust spokesman jim

buckingham palace agrees to dna testing  -  Nov 20, 2007
The Spoof (satire),...mr. blackmore was then arrested for slandering the queen. the palace then tried to justify its decision to allow maternity testing but not paternity testing

call for paternity tests at birth  -  Nov 19, 2007
Newstalk ZB,...a fathers' rights group believes paternity testing should be carried out at birth, to avoid any questions later. an australian dna testing firm has found a

easydna launches operations in australia and new zealand  -  Nov 16, 2007
Free press releases (press release),...dna paternity testing firm easydna has expanded its operations to provide its dna testing services in two new markets: australia and new zealand. sydney,

easydna launches operations in canada  -  Oct 29, 2007
PR.com (press release),...dna paternity testing firm easydna has expanded its operations to provide its dna testing services in canada. thanet way, united kingdom, october 29,

celera and ipsen enter research collaboration to develop ...  -  Nov 20, 2007
WELT ONLINE,...these include the fields of human identity testing (forensic and paternity testing); biosecurity, which refers to products needed in response to the threat

orchid cellmark appoints william j. thomas vice president and ...  -  Nov 20, 2007
CNNMoney.com...orchid cellmark provides dna testing services for forensic investigation, paternity testing and family relationship analysis and security applications.

tri-state native starts drug screening business in alaska  -  Oct 31, 2007
Keokuk Gate City Daily,...“we do a lot of different things. our dna tests are usually for paternity testing but we have the ability for forensics testing.

quarter of dna tests show man not the father  -  Nov 18, 2007
Scoop.co.nz,...not to be the biological father, draws attention to the legal anomaly in new zealand, where the family court is powerless to order paternity testing.

celera to webcast presentation at the piper jaffray healthcare ...  -  Nov 21, 2007
Business Wire (press release),...which we refer to as “applied markets,� such as the fields of: human identity testing (forensic and paternity testing); biosecurity, which refers to

health news  -  Nov 11, 2007
Charlotte Observer,...paternity testing program. the program was created to ensure that paternity testing takes place in a timely and convenient manner. to accomplish this,

family: paternity test from football hero's dna proves negative  -  Nov 10, 2007
WLNS,...ap - november 10, 2007 12:44 pm et traverse city, mich. (ap) - dna from george gipp's recently exhumed body shows he's not the father of a child born

sac state professor, students create tanzanian dna database  -  Oct 30, 2007
StateHornet.com,...a dna database designed for criminal and paternity testing for the tanzanian government was completed after it was built over the past summer. biological

11/06 tuesday morning testimony | kxnet.com north dakota news  -  Nov 6, 2007
KXMC,...tx. concentrates on dna identity testing. i have three patents on dna technologies. two of them are deal with paternity testing. the third is molecular

a sense of closure  -  Nov 1, 2007
Gulf News,...not re-experience it. then there's the paternity testing firm that helps identify the true parents of offspring. think anna nicole smith and everything

public safety: three teens charged in beating  -  Nov 9, 2007
Kansas City Star,...and the daughter she delivered had severe birth defects, according to court documents. paternity testing established nguyen as the father,

this tv channel's programming is truly deadly  -  Nov 1, 2007
MSNBC...travel agencies on how to spend holidays without a partner. a paternity testing firm helps those seeking certainty about their offspring while a party

stl county man who impregnated girl gets 20-year term  -  Nov 2, 2007
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...michael bert said the dna match of jackson with his baby daughter would have proved the state's case. a doctor from paternity testing corp. of columbia,

czech police drop investigation into hospital baby mix-up  -  Nov 1, 2007
Monsters and Critics.com,...a 29-year-old truck driver, underwent genetic paternity testing, a result of his suspicion that the blond girl, who showed no resemblance to him,

man sentenced in neglect, permitting abuse of toddler  -  Nov 1, 2007
Tulsa World,...reports show. green believed he was zaviare's father, but paternity testing showed that he was not the father, a psychologist testified wednesday.



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