[forking the DNA discussion slightly] On giving blood samples to police: I believe the supremes are going to hear a case about a hospital taking blood samples after delivery of a baby, running drug checks, and turning her over to the police immediately for child abuse. In a case within the last year, some local woman had her baby taken immediately after birth because they drug tested her and found a sedative that her doctor had given her, but wasn't recorded so they figured it was recreational. She should be suing their asses off but only wanted an apology in the broadcast I intercepted. Maybe her kid will sue in 18 years, one hopes. ..... [back to DNA] Recently read about a website where you can offer to donate your blood for a disease-oriented DNA bank. [No, I am not mixing this with the donate-cat-hair-for-feline-DNA-bank story of a month ago.] They are interested in a list of diseases you or your immediate family have had. Some scandanavian countries have complete health records on all their citizens and some are working on national DNA banks. Some of these will be made available for research after some form of anonymization.