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

[Shelley]

On November 12, 2015 5:33:27 AM Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com> wrote:

> Besides blood, can (parts of) DNA be recovered from other stuff say hair, 
> urine?

Short answer: yes.

http://www.forensicmag.com/articles/2013/04/challenges-dna-testing-and-forensic-analysis-hair-samples

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3792701/

The ease and speed of extracting DNA from a hair sample depends on which 
part of the strand you have.  But, yeah.

-Shelley