I was one of the first to spit into a test tube, giving up my DNA forever to learn more about my health and heredity. You know, the ones that promise to connect you with distant relatives you didn’t ...

Last month, Chenedy Wiles finally got around to it. The 27-year-old traveling nurse spit into a tube and mailed it to 23andMe, where the genetic testing company’s lab examined her DNA and generated a ...

The bankruptcy of 23andMe is raising concerns about the future of its DNA information. Once a pioneer in the genetic testing industry, the company faced backlash after hackers leaked user data in 2023 ...

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Twenty-five years after JonBenet Ramsey was killed, police say they are looking at “genetic DNA testing” to see if it can be used to help solve the case. Ancestry has announced that it had to lay off ...

Beef genomics and DNA testing are topics that keep popping up in the livestock arena, but are they valuable for both the purebred and commercial producer, and can they result in additional profits?

India's hospital chains, diagnostics networks, and global investors have poured millions of dollars into gene sequencing, ...