Nineteen children and counting

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

How one sperm donor found out he has 19 children -- and learned the promises and perils of online genetic testing. And, how dogs can sniff out diseases, including the coronavirus.

When Bryce Cleary donated his sperm in 1989, he was told he would have five donor children at most and all would be located on the East Coast, his own role hidden behind anonymity. Kyle Swenson reports that with the advent of genealogical websites like Ancestry.com and 23andMe, Cleary realized he one day might be revealed to the children he helped bring into the world.

As the novel coronavirus continues to ravage the world, researchers are racing to find a faster way to detect it. Frances Stead Sellers reports that nine dogs at the University of Pennsylvania are being trained to sniff out the disease.

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0:28.8	Hi, this is Dan Zack.
0:30.3	This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers.
0:35.6	It's Friday, September 11th.
0:40.4	Today, a long ago sperm donor learns the perils of genetic testing
0:45.2	and how dogs can sniff out diseases, including COVID.
0:48.8	So, Bryce Cleary is a middle-aged guy from Kervalis, Oregon.
0:59.2	He's a doctor, a family practitioner, and he's a hometown guy.
1:02.5	He grew up in Kervalis. Born and raised four sons and an adopted daughter there.
1:08.9	He's got a handful of stepchildren and step grandchildren.
1:13.6	When I first met him, he told me that he was basically the most boring guy ever.
1:21.8	And he didn't mean it in a negative way. I think he liked being a very boring guy.
1:26.4	That's Kyle Sponson, reporter of the post.
1:28.8	In November, he went to Oregon to spend some time with Bryce.
1:32.4	The one kind of quirky thing about Bryce's life was that when he was in medical school in Portland
1:37.6	in the late 80s, he had donated sperm to a fertility clinic in Portland.
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