Saturday 24 January 2009

SuperBowl Footballs Marked with Synthetic DNA

A Santa Ana, Calif., company says about 120 footballs will be used in Super Bowl XLIII, and all of them will be marked to prevent counterfeiting. "The DNA ink has an astronomical 1-in-33 million chance of being accurately reproduced by counterfeiters," said Orlando, author of "Collecting Sports Legends."

Get the low-down here:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1627656/footballs_marked_with_synthetic_dna/index.html?source=r_oddities

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