HUFFINGTON POST – Nov 8 - A Swiss company called GenePartner has developed a biological matching system using your human leukocyte antigen, or HLA, genes to find your perfect match. The company works with several dating sites around the world–Sense2love and Eventful Dating to name two–and tests interested people by mail. You get a couple of Q-tips, scrape the inside of your cheek and that of the other party or parties you'd like to have checked, and return it to the company. Later, you receive access to a closed account on the company's website, where you can read at your leisure about how well you supposedly fit together, genetically. The company's total manpower proves to be two women: the director, Joelle Apter, and the head of research, Tamara Brown.
by Lone Frank
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BasisNote.com offers a ‘Scent of Love’ matching system that is also based on DNA matching. They were concerned about the legalities of DNA matching so they steered clear of calling it DNA matching.
BasisNote.com offers a ‘Scent of Love’ matching system that is also based on DNA matching. They were concerned about the legalities of DNA matching so they steered clear of calling it DNA matching.
Basing relationship compatibility on the same factors as organ transplants was novel and fun to think about three years ago. I have met most of the leaders in the space and tried at least 5 of these services over the years and never gotten a decent match. But I flirt and meet people all the time on mobile dating apps and traditional dating sites.
Regardless of what I say from here on out, thank god these people are trying something new.
Question: Is mailing Q-tips more effective than the color-matching system that Basisnote uses? (not mailing anything).
Dating is simply another market for GenePartner to go after. I don’t blame them but its pointless at this time because it simply doesn’t work in the current format.
There is zero evidence that at Internet scale, any sort of chemistry matching works any better than say a mobile flirting app. I will read white papers all night long, really.
I love what Basisnote has been working on and it’s a shame about Scientific Match. 10 years from now this will be a different story, but for now, algorithms trump DNA 100%.
I’m betting on credit card and social media exhaust being the deciding pre-date selection factors. Everything else is a hammer looking for a nail.
Basing relationship compatibility on the same factors as organ transplants was novel and fun to think about three years ago. I have met most of the leaders in the space and tried at least 5 of these services over the years and never gotten a decent match. But I flirt and meet people all the time on mobile dating apps and traditional dating sites.
Regardless of what I say from here on out, thank god these people are trying something new.
Question: Is mailing Q-tips more effective than the color-matching system that Basisnote uses? (not mailing anything).
Dating is simply another market for GenePartner to go after. I don’t blame them but its pointless at this time because it simply doesn’t work in the current format.
There is zero evidence that at Internet scale, any sort of chemistry matching works any better than say a mobile flirting app. I will read white papers all night long, really.
I love what Basisnote has been working on and it’s a shame about Scientific Match. 10 years from now this will be a different story, but for now, algorithms trump DNA 100%.
I’m betting on credit card and social media exhaust being the deciding pre-date selection factors. Everything else is a hammer looking for a nail.