Dating Chemistry
I mean it literally. Dating Chemistry. A few months ago a new kind of dating agency was borned in Boston, calling itself ScientificMatch.com. It uses DNA samples from customers to match them with others who have different alleles for major histocompatibility complex genes.
To put it in a layman term, the theory is based on people tending to be most attracted to the scent of the shirt whose owner has different alleles from the sniffer. Darwin explained this phenomenon as a promotion of genetic diversity between mates.
For a lifetime membership of $1995.95, you could be on your way to finding partners who are chemically compatible with you. The evolutionary scent does make sense. People usually get turned on by the smell that they like, such as perfumes. The company also asks you for your background, lifestyle, income and hobbies just like a typical online-dating agency.
With only a handful customers signed up so far, only time can tests the theory.
I think it’s a great idea that people are starting to capitalise in genetic science. The genetic map by itself is worthless if people doesn’t know what to with it. So I predict that within 20 years, human genetic code will be readily available at a much cheaper price for everyone. And people like us wouldn’t even have to paid for it to have our genetic map. Pharmaceutial companies will pick up the bill, and they will analyse the data to tell us what we needed to treat, who we should get married to, what the child will be good at when he/she grows up. The boundary for what we could use it for is uncapped, but a structure should be put in place to avoid discrimination in hiring people for a job, and providing life insurance etc.
