Both had registered their DNA and found out that the men they believed fathered them were not, in fact, their real dads.

David Gertler and Roz Snyder are the biological children of a retired NHS scientist who worked in the Oldham, Greater Manchester, laboratory of test-tube baby pioneer Mr Patrick Steptoe.

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