FOR reasons best known to herself, Laura Emery was browsing for DNA on eBay. To her alarm, she came across the Lifetech DNA Activator CD. One lucky bidder obtained, for $14.95, the power to “activate 100 per cent of your 2-strand DNA, plus 10 additional strands!” Boring old conventional medicine would regard even the first part as dangerous – after all, you want to be careful where you express toenail genes, for example. But on top of that, as Laura notes: “Blimey, I’m doing a genetics degree but no one told me there are 10 additional ‘etheric’ DNA…
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