Various corners of the media and internet are hyperventilating over the alleged genetic privacy implications of the imminent Chapter 11 bankruptcy of the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company ...

Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA shared by millions of people with the company via saliva test kits.

In the SURE bill submitted on February 19, the justice minister plans to introduce an article that would, in particular, allow 'the use of genetic genealogy' in certain cases. These DNA samples come ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Changes to a DNA database will likely affect cold case investigations. The site Ancestry.com recently tightened restrictions for law enforcement, requiring a court order ...

DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first ...

On a special episode (first released on April 16, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: The recent bankruptcy of genetic testing firm 23andMe has raised alarm bells for privacy advocates and consumers worried ...

BALTIMORE — Authorities touted the use of a growing, powerful, yet contentious forensic technique to bring the search for a suspect in last year’s killing of Rachel Morin to a long-awaited close. The ...

One of the world’s biggest genetic databases comprises DNA data donated over the years by more than a million retired military service members. It’s part of a project run by the Department of Veterans ...

Americans with European heritage have long been able to pinpoint their ancestry through DNA testing, but it's only in recent years that those with African heritage have been able to trace their ...

The amendments were introduced to Russia’s law on state regulation in the field of genetic engineering. The updated ...