|
DNA Solutions is a DNA testing company〔(Company website )〕 created by biotechnologist Vern Muir B.Sc. in 1996, and incorporated in 1998. The company created a home paternity kit in 1997 and has since expanded its services to include DNA sample storage. ==History== DNA Solutions created the 'home paternity kit' in 1997, which was a new concept where people for the first time could take samples for DNA testing at home, instead of in the laboratory. Originally the kits worked by people taking a hair sample, and posting into the laboratory for testing. The kit was first reported in the Australian newspaper ''The Herald'' in 1998. These home testing kits have since revolutionized DNA testing, and the industry has subsequently adopted DNA Solutions' terminology of using "home kit" and "home paternity kit" a term now used by virtually all DNA testing companies and laboratories for the "use at home" DNA testing services. This new type of DNA testing led to a great deal of controversy, especially in the year 2000, when the Vice President of the Australian Medical Association issued a press releasing calling for a ban of DNA Solutions's services due to issues of privacy and consent.〔(Australian newspaper, ''The Age'', report on call for ban of the new DNA tests, year 2000 )〕 News of the new tests, and their availability online spread world-wide〔http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/901401.stm BBC news report on the new tests, year 2000〕〔http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0010/02/pappa.html Sweden's national newspaper ''Aftonbladet'' reports on DNA Solutions new tests.〕 Over the next decade while DNA testing kits were being adopted by most DNA laboratories, DNA Solutions spread its services to such countries as Russia, France and China.〔http://www.times.spb.ru/story/15478 Russian newspaper reports on the 'do it yourself' DNA tests hitting Russia in 2005〕〔http://www.hanwoodna.com.cn Chinese website〕 In 2007, DNA Solutions profiled 800 elephant dung samples from the jungles of Cambodia in order to calculate the number of wild elephants remaining in the wild.〔(Australian newspaper report on elephant DNA profiling project )〕 In 2008, DNA Solutions won the tender to store DNA samples for the Australian military and at the same time launched a service to store DNA samples for the public.〔(Australian newspaper report on DNA Solutions DNA storage for the Australian Military )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「DNA Solutions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|