The advent of accessible DNA paternity testing has sparked nothing short of a social revolution. What began as a specialised medical procedure confined to hospital laboratories and criminal ...

A mobile DNA testing facility that looks more like a motor home than a medical clinic is raising questions about the ramifications of quick and easy tests to determine paternity and other biological ...

As Nigeria continues to grapple with a surge in paternity disputes, scientists say Sanger sequencing via Capillary Electrophoresis (CE, a DNA testing method, remains the global gold standard for ...

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) internet companies are selling widely advertised and highly popular genetic ancestry tests to the broad public. These tests are often classified as falling within the scope of ...

A cytogeneticist and clinical embryologist, Dr Paul Faduola, has revealed that with technological advancement, experts can now achieve 99.99 percent paternity test results. In Nigeria, paternity fraud ...

A leading specialised and molecular laboratory, DNA-Harley and Rainbow Specialised Laboratories, with headquarters at 72, Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, has called for the introduction of ...

DNA testing has become a dominant tool in modern forensic science, immigration verification, and family law, particularly for paternity identification. However, its application in Ethiopia raises ...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of an informatics-based, noninvasive, prenatal paternity test using array-based single-nucleotide polymorphism measurements of cell-free ...

Smart DNA, a leading DNA testing centre based in Lagos, has unveiled its 2024 report, offering a deep dive into the evolving trends and implications of DNA testing in Nigeria. Spanning the period from ...

The family of the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, has renewed its call for a post-mortem deoxyribonucleic acid test, rejecting any DNA procedure that relies on samples from ...