DNA

Home DNA-testing company 23andMe laid off 100 employees this week due to declining sales.

The U.S. government on Monday launched a pilot program to collect DNA from people in immigration custody and submit it to the FBI, with plans to expand nationwide. The information would go into a massive criminal database run by the FBI, where it would be held indefinitely. A memo outlining the program published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security said...

A dismembered and headless John Doe, whose remains were found in Idaho caves, has been identified as a murderer who died shortly after he escaped jail more than 100 years ago....
The remarkably well preserved remains of Joseph Henry Loveless were believed to have been placed in the Civil Defense Caves near Dubois, Idaho, in 1916. His torso was found in...

Senior Pentagon officials have told members of the Armed Forces to skip what may seem like the perfect holiday gift — an at-home DNA test.

A Baltimore man is suing over a take-home paternity test he says incorrectly indicated he was the father of a 1-year-old girl. Nnanaka Nwofor wants the Ohio-based testing company to pay $75,000 for the cost of supporting the child and her mother and the pain of learning he wasn’t the father.

A San Francisco murder victim known for 43 years as Jane Doe #40 has been identified by investigators as Judy Gifford, a 14-year-old girl from New Jersey whose aunt kept the same phone number for decades in case her niece tried to call.

Fort Worth police say they’ve solved the decades-old cold case murder of an 11-year-old girl using DNA phenotyping. On June 27, 1983, Julie Fuller was reported missing after she’d gone to take out the trash at the Kensington Motel in Arlington. Fuller and her family had only recently arrived in North Texas, having moved to the United States from England….

Early one morning in April, a homeless woman sleeping in an abandoned house in Louisville, Kentucky, was jolted awake by a stranger who pulled her bedding over her head and raped her, according to police. The 29-year-old woman was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital, where nurses examined her for traces of DNA that could identify her assailant, NBC News…......

Under federal law, companies are not allowed to use your genetic information against you for things like health insurance or a job. But that protection does not apply to things like life insurance or long-term care insurance, and the laws are constantly changing.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has released DNA results supporting her claims to have Native American ancestry.

About 60 percent of the U.S. population with European heritage may be identifiable from their DNA by searching consumer websites, even if they’ve never made their own genetic information available, a study estimates. And that number will grow as more and more people upload their DNA profiles to websites that use genetic analysis to find relatives, said the authors of...

Three DNA companies have announced they will donate DNA kits to help reunite immigrant children with their parents, as the Trump administration moves to end a policy of splitting up families at the U.S.-Mexico border. MyHeritage said in a news release that it aims to provide 5,000 free DNA tests for interested parents and children who were separated. 23andMe CEO...

Court records show DNA from a tissue left in a trash can led authorities to arrest a former California police officer suspected of being the Golden State Killer.

A Massachusetts grand jury has indicted a woman whose DNA linked her to the attempted shooting of a state trooper.

It’s a family affair for 98-year-old Ellen Law since the Ontario resident met her biological family for the first time after finding out she was adopted.

As at-home DNA tests become more convenient and common, users are dealing with more questions about their origins and the emotional aftermath of their results, CNBC reported. DNA tests sites such as AncesteryDNA and 23andMe expect more people than ever to have the DNA tests during the holidays. Millions have already gotten tested. And for many of these people, the...

Researchers have taken an important step toward better lung cancer treatment by using blood tests to track genetic changes in tumors as they progress from their very earliest stages. With experimental tests that detect bits of DNA that tumors shed into the blood, they were able to detect some recurrences of cancer up to a year before imaging scans could,...