We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, so we put it to the test.

Investigators in the Nancy Guthrie case have turned to genetic genealogy as they try to make the most of potential DNA ...

Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place. But they disagree on ...

Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match to a DNA database would have been a dead end.

Here's what we know about the South Florida DNA lab chosen over Quantico to analyze evidence in the Nancy Guthrie abduction.

A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Orange County assemblymember's bill would make grabbing someone's DNA without asking could be a crime.

A woman in Australia grew up believing her father’s family perished in the Holocaust until a MyHeritage DNA test sparked a remarkable discovery. Adriana Turk, 74, from Merimbula, adored her father. “I ...

Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had the curious habit of buying up DNA test kits for his rich, famous and powerful friends, emails released by the Justice Department Friday show. On Sept. 21, 2016 ...

A DNA identification has been made in a homicide case that began nearly 40 years ago with the disappearance of a Birmingham ...

A forensic technology that has set wrongfully convicted murderers free and jailed famed serial killers just landed its first ...