While non-invasive sample collection is often preferable to drawing blood,  up until now there has not been a non-invasive method that could challenge blood in terms of yielding a significant quantity of high quality genomic DNA yield with low bacterial DNA content.  The iSWAB DNA, thanks to it’s innovative design and proprietary lysis and stabilization buffer, is able to offer the same DNA quantity and quality as blood, but without the complex and invasive nature of collection.