THEY are being touted as the customised gift par excellence – items bearing patterns based on the recipient’s own genetic fingerprint.
Neil Sullivan, CEO of Complement Genomics in Sunderland in north-east England, conceived the idea as a sideline to the company’s main business. This includes collecting DNA for pharmaceuticals companies and paternity testing.
Using a kit provided by the company, customers swab the inside of the lucky recipient’s mouth to collect some cells before sending the swabs back with a description of the kind of gift they want. Sullivan’s team then extracts DNA from the cells and analyses it to provide…
