A hunch that your partner is cheating on you? For men, at least, a new spy tactic proves more reliable than a few scrunched receipts and lipsticked collars.
For $200, a company will DNA test his and her underwear for traces of semen and/or "tell-tale traces of vaginal fluid."
The Paternity Lab Center's new Infidelity DNA Testing may not stop cheating but it offers a quick way to squash the horrible doubt that sets in when infidelity is suspected by providing "100% non-disputable proof."
“Most of the men callers want to check for someone else's semen in their wife or girlfriends panties, but the women all want to know if female DNA is present in their husband or boyfriends underwear," said Tashunda H. who handles sensitive calls at the Center from suspicious men and women.
The company claims the testing is easier on the pocketbook than, say, hiring a private investigator to trail a partner, and the evidence it provides is indisputable.
All fine and dandy, unless of course the cheater uses a condom or is scrupulous about not leaving sexy undies lying around.
Creepy or calculated?
Although scientists know that autistic individuals exhibit gastrointestinal symptoms including inflammation and other intestinal abnormalities, they haven't been able to pinpoint what causes those symptoms. Until now.
New research from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, to be published in the online journal mBio®, has shown that autistic children harbor a type of bacteria in their guts that non-autistic children do not.
Sutterella bacteria was found in 12 of 23 tissue samples from the guts of autistic children, organisms that weren't present in any samples from non-autistic children.
"Most work that has been done linking the gut microbiome with autism has been done with stool samples," says Jorge Benach, Chairman of the Department of Microbiology at Stony Brook University. "What may show up in a stool sample may be different from what is directly attached to the tissue."
Tissue biopsy samples are harder to come by, as they require surgery.
It remains to be seen how this particular form of bacteria impacts development, yet it is an exciting lead in what remains a largely mysterious disorder.
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