ScientificMatch.com

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| founder = Eric Holzle{{cite web | title=Company Sells Scientific Approach to Love | website=NPR | date=March 26, 2008 | url=https://www.npr.org/2008/03/26/89099481/company-sells-scientific-approach-to-love }}

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ScientificMatch.com was an online dating service launched in December 2007 by Eric Holzle and based in Boston, Massachusetts.Sheril Kirshenbaum. {{cite book | title=The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us | publisher=Grand Central Publishing | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-446-57513-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQhknRXlyvkC&pg=PT70 | page=70}}

The company scanned cells from the inside of members' mouths for six immunity markers to help them find someone who is a match. The test results were used to match people with complementary immune systems.{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-sex19-2008may19,0,5686684.story | work=Los Angeles Times | title=Do I smell sexy? Here's a new reason to swap spit | first=Regina | last=Nuzzo |authorlink= Regina Nuzzo | date=2008-05-19}}{{Cite news | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-02-14/so-i-married-an-avatarbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice | title=So I Married an Avatar | first=Catherine | last=Holahan | work=Bloomberg News | date=February 14, 2008}}{{cite news | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/bizarre-dating-sites-you-didnt-know-existed/10/ | title=Bizarre dating sites you didn't know existed | publisher=CBS News}}{{Cite news | url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=3991467&page=1 | title=Can DNA Tests Help Find True Love? | first=EMILY | last=FRIEDMAN | work=ABC News | date=December 13, 2007}}{{Cite news | url=https://www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2008/02/13/Dating-with-a-twist-New-service-makes-matches-using-DNA-tests/stories/200802130152 | title=Dating with a twist: New service makes matches using DNA tests | first=L.A. | last=JOHNSON | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=February 13, 2008}}{{Cite news | url=https://www.herald.ie/lifestyle/femme/internet-dating-has-taken-an-elitist-turn-27910586.html | title=Internet dating has taken an elitist turn | first=Katie | last=Byrne | work=The Herald | date=May 5, 2009 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218015940/http://www.herald.ie/lifestyle/femme/internet-dating-has-taken-an-elitist-turn-27910586.html | archive-date=2013-02-18 | url-status=dead }}{{Cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-sex19-2008may19-story.html | title=Do I smell sexy? Here's a new reason to swap spit | first=Regina | last=Nuzzo|authorlink= Regina Nuzzo | work=Los Angeles Times | date=May 19, 2008}}{{Cite news | url=https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2008/01/10/the-scent-of-a-woman-and-a-man | title=The scent of a woman (and a man) | work=The Economist | date=January 10, 2008}}

The website was shut down in early 2012.

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