A dozen or more people have come forward since Tiffany Score and Steven Mills found out there had been a mix-up and their newborn girl was not genetically related to them — and the process of finding ...

New DNA technology leads to the arrest of a mother in Columbus County, over 50 years later. Over 50 years ago, a baby was found in a black trash bag inside a Columbus County landfill. For decades, the ...

Authorities must still test the DNA of a man convicted of killing a woman in Dartmouth in 1988 even though he died in 2022, the state’s highest court ruled Friday. A judge had ordered the testing at ...

"At first, I kind of laughed … But they were serious. I could just see the seriousness in their faces." In this book excerpt, Lise Barnéoud explores the limitations of DNA testing.

A Columbus County woman was arrested Tuesday nearly five decades after a newborn baby was found in a North Carolina landfill.

New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal ...

A new bill passed the Vermont House, that aims to better protect certain information, that you may have sent to popular family ancestry sites. The bill, is called the Genetic Information Privacy Act; ...

Advancements in genetics testing in the clinic may allow for faster diagnosis and treatments, say genetics experts at Johns ...

The panel ensures compatibility with our previous autosomal Family Finder tests plus all the autosomal transfers we ...

Investigators are hopeful that some of the DNA that was found at Guthrie's home can be parsed and help point to a suspect in ...

Live Science spoke with a bioethicist and sociologist about emerging genomic technologies, including those that enable ...

Forensic genealogy has helped investigators track down serial killers, now police are using it to try to identify Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper. The post Forensic genealogy helped catch killers. Can it ...