If you would like to try to donate for Mom, please submit the code "nalini" so that your swab kits can be expedited.

The Health Protection Agency say they want to test her for swine flu but at the moment local doctors do not have the swab kits.

It must have been a relief for a former senior policeman - a friend of the victims' family - when the homicide squad finally came calling with a swab kit.

To put his mind at ease, Mr. Jones bought several LeadCheck swab kits from his local hardware store to test dozens of his daughter’s toys.

A handwritten note, handcuff box, camping equipment and a DNA swab kit were among the items found in the burned home and garage of James DiMaggio.

But swab kits and microscopes took a back seat to the room-sized supercomputer Kat Holt used to crunch the masses of data to understand the genome of bacteria.

"We will press for prosecution of anyone who attacks our staff and the introduction of swab kits and CCTV will improve our ability to bring the offenders to account."

Graham's concept was so simple and yet could save the lives of tens of thousands of Americans with leukemia who are waiting for a bone-marrow transplant: packing a swab kit inside a box of bandage strips.

San Diego County deputies searching DiMaggio's charred home found a handwritten note, handcuff box, camping equipment, a DNA swab kit, two used condoms and letters from Hannah, according to an affidavit.

Mitochondrial DNA, collected through an oral swab kit mailed to the donor, is passed only through the maternal line so the Army has to locate eligible donors from the mother's side of missing soldiers' families.

Sheila Brockington, project director of Family and Medical Counseling Service, and Deputy Director Angela Wood hold a swab kit outside the DMV office in southeast Washington D.C.

A 17-year-old from Weston-super-Mare was due in court on 23 December 2009 in connection with the incident, having been identified by the use of DNA swab kits, which are available to all Great Western Railway staff.