IamA molecular biologists who did a DNA test on Belle Delphine’s bath water

I’m serous. Listen up, guys (and girls)

All humans shed cells, and it would be expected to find some skin cells (along with fecal bacteria, but that’s another topic) and therefore human DNA in this “bath water”. Well, I did an eDNA analysis through ddPCR and lo and behold… there is no human DNA in it at all.

Since she advertised it as being her bath water, which it clearly ISN’T, there might be grounds for a class action suit. If you have a receipt of your purchase, you might be eligible or damages. Like I said, I’m serious.

I mean, this was dumb on her part to begin with. If she really did bottle her bath water, anyone* would be able to amplify and sequence the DNA in the sample and in short, obtain her complete genotype. Since she didn’t sell her bath water, she protected herself from that, but left herself open to potentially getting sued

*anyone with access to a lab or who’s willing to send the sample to any of the numerous cheap sequencing [labs]