When we first wrote this article, it compared 23andMe and Ancestry. Since then, 23andMe has experienced a data breach, a subsequent lawsuit, board members' resignations and layoffs amidst financial ...

Whether you want to authenticate well-loved family stories or are unaware of your family history and need a place to start, personal DNA testing has never been easier. At-home DNA tests are a popular ...

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For more than 40 years, the Golden State Killer haunted California. A serial rapist and murderer active in the 1970s and '80s, he eluded detectives for decades. By 2018, hope of identifying him was ...

Before you test your DNA, you should have a good reason for testing. For example, while most testers do so to obtain ethnicity estimates, this is mainly for entertainment value and is often not ...

Researchers at Texas Children's Neurological Research Institute (NRI) and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a powerful new tool within the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) to sharpen the ...

Rose Brystowski, 68, had a choice to make. Others might have found it difficult. She found it easy. Brystowski, of Oak Park, Michigan, wasn't about to let her genetics forfeit her future. Doctors cut ...

A new DNA analysis has revealed that people buried together in a medieval Ibiza cemetery carried sharply mixed ancestry.