States Storing And Selling Your DNA At Birth Without Explicit Notice Consent (TBA: Hospitals Doctors Testlabs Too)

[Georgi Guninski]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:20:04AM -0500, dan at geer.org wrote:
> http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-ear-made-with-van-gogh-dna-1=
> 80957230/?no-ist
> .... Using DNA extracted from a stamp
> licked by the artist, as well as cell samples collected from van
> Gogh's great-great-grandnephew, Strebe and team created "Sugababe,"
> an artificially grown ear suspended in a clear gel.
>

Definitely don't believe usable human DNA on a stamp can survive over
120 years unless very carefully preserved since the beginning.


great-great-grandnephew is entirely different stuff.