This isn’t just a theoretical concern. Remember the Golden State Killer case? Investigators used DNA from a distant relative ...

Millions of Americans have embraced at-home DNA kits, hoping to unlock the secrets of their family trees and uncover potential health risks. But behind the promise of ancestry and well-being lies ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

23andMe, one of the largest at-home DNA testing companies, is up for sale, raising concerns about the privacy and potential health risks of customers' genetic information. 33,331 people played the ...

A Virginia real estate agent is close to finishing a self-appointed mission aimed at collecting enough DNA to meet the threshold for exhuming dozens of unknown Pearl Harbor victims who were ...

Florida failed me, just as Colorado has failed to process DNA collected from rape survivors in a timely way. The backlog includes more than 1,700 rape kits at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation ...

In March 2025, the town experienced another interesting first: the sighting of killer whales off the coast. In a social media post, the Florida-based Clearwater Marine Aquarium Institute said, "This ...

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