{"id":99564,"date":"2019-12-10T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T03:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/after-transplant-procedure-mans-semen-contains-only-donors-dna"},"modified":"2019-12-10T19:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T03:02:49","slug":"after-transplant-procedure-mans-semen-contains-only-donors-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/after-transplant-procedure-mans-semen-contains-only-donors-dna","title":{"rendered":"After Transplant Procedure, Man\u2019s Semen Contains Only Donor\u2019s DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-transplant-procedure-mans-semen-contains-only-donors-dna2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Long is an IT worker in the Washoe County Sheriff\u2019s Department in Reno, Nevada. But all the DNA in his semen belongs to a German man he\u2019s never met.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Long received a bone marrow transplant from the European stranger four years ago \u2014 and the unexpected impact it has had on his biology could affect the future of forensic science.<\/p>\n<p>According to a newly published <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/07\/us\/dna-bone-marrow-transplant-crime-lab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">story<\/a>, the purpose of the transplant was to treat Long\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aamds.org\/diseases\/acute-myeloid-leukemia-aml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acute myeloid leukemia<\/a>, a type of cancer that prevents the body from producing blood normally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Long is an IT worker in the Washoe County Sheriff\u2019s Department in Reno, Nevada. But all the DNA in his semen belongs to a German man he\u2019s never met. That\u2019s because Long received a bone marrow transplant from the European stranger four years ago \u2014 and the unexpected impact it has had on his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}