Have you heard about new dating services that match singles based on their DNA?  Instead of filling out forms with pages of personal questions, applicants for these matchmaking services send in a swab from the inside of their cheek for DNA analysis.  I just read a fabulously interesting article in Women’s Health Magazine by Andrew Postman called “Your DNA looks hot tonight” about new scientifically-advanced versions of online dating services.
In 2007 Eric Holzle founded a service called scientificmatch.com as a DNA matchmaking site for those living in the Boston/Providence region.  The service is based on three MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) …read more

Male fertility and diabetes… Scientists told the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology that diabetes in men has a direct affect on infertility. The large increase in the amount of diagnosed diabetics led to this research.
This will have large implications for many of couples that are struggling with infertility and the worries that correlate with such problems. Just how did the scientists come to this conclusion when years in past sperm looked no different under the microscope? They had to look further…
“But when we looked for DNA damage, we saw a very different picture,” …read more

So, Hsien over at Eye on DNA has posted the interview that I did with her about the deCode T2 test that DNA Direct facilitated. I don’t know if you remember me mentioning it before but this is the test that confirms whether you carry the gene sequence that puts you at an increased risk to develop diabetes. In plain English, they are looking at your DNA.
Here is a tidbit of the interview…

HL: How has finding out that you tested negative changed the way you think about having diabetes?
KJ: Really… none. The test itself shows if you carry …read more