Collecting DNA samples for your paternity DNA test has never been easier. Today forget blood, injections and doctors and the stomach churning experience this may have on some people. I hate injections and all the more the sight of my own blood. Children are even more fearful on injections and blood. Anyways, all this is history as DNA paternity testing is carried out in a very different way today than in the past. Saliva and DNA testing A saliva sample provides plenty of DNA for scientists to work with in paternity tests. But how do you collect your saliva? Well, not by spitting. A simple oral swab is...

Perhaps the terms forensic DNA testing is somewhat misleading to those who are not really acquainted with how DNA paternity testing companies operate. The term forensic immediately bring to mind crime scenes and criminal investigations with groups of doctors and pathologists testing minute traces of human tissue or blood found at crime scenes in order to catch the killer. When we talk of forensic DNA testing in companies carrying out paternity testing, we actually refer to DNA testing using forensic DNA samples. Let’s make this clearer. Typically, all DNA tests (paternity tests, maternity tests, Y...