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...this latest study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Pace dispersed a team of undergraduate students into 45 bathrooms mostly in New York City and Denver to swab and test the inside of showerheads; bacteria tend to accumulate in dense communities there, forming thin, gooey "biofilms." When you run the shower, germs are ejected out of the showerhead in the spray. Inhale the fine water droplets and M. avium gets a direct passage to your lungs where it proceeds to wreak havoc if your immune system isn't strong enough...
...extent to which HLA plays a role in what we call mate choice," says Peter Donnelly, director of Oxford's Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics. But GenePartner is betting that the lovelorn will give it a shot. For now, for $99, you can order a kit, swab your cheek, mail it to Switzerland and get your GenePartner ID. You can then be matched with anybody in the GenePartner database. Eventually, you'll be able to take your ID with you from dating site to dating site. Or post it on, say, Facebook. "You could see who in your network...
...Thomas' background that appears to have come back to land him in jail. He was tied to the latest charges through DNA samples taken from him in October 2008 as part of California's ongoing process to swab registered sex offenders. Thomas was required to give the samples because of a rape conviction in 1978 in Pasadena. He was also convicted of burglary and attempted rape in Los Angeles in 1957. On March 27, the California Department of Justice DNA Laboratory notified detectives that Thomas' DNA matched evidence for the rape and murder of Ethel Sokoloff...
...identity of a burned corpse found in 2002, they were re-examining the fingerprints of a male asylum seeker taken from his asylum application made many years earlier. The fingerprints contained the Phantom's female DNA. Impossible, they thought, so they repeated the test with a different cotton swab - and this time found no trace of the Phantom...
...Earlier this year, Austrian authorities began decommissioning all cotton swabs manufactured by Austrian company Greiner Bio-One International AG after they had made a similar discovery, with a different mysterious DNA donor. On Thursday, several German states admitted to using that same brand of cotton swab. An investigator from the state of Baden-Württemberg told Bild newspaper: "The things were double-packaged; we thought they were the Mercedes of cotton swabs." But the Austrian manufacturer hurried to declare Thursday night that "Greiner Bio-One cotton swabs are not certified for DNA analysis...