The recent bankruptcy of genetic testing firm 23andMe has raised alarms for privacy advocates and consumers worried about ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization defending civil liberties, argues that law enforcement use of ...

A man who died days after being found unconscious on a Phoenix sidewalk two decades ago has finally been identified, thanks ...

A decades-old mystery in the Lower Yakima Valley has taken a new turn as investigators work to identify a woman known only as ...

DNA nanotechnology is a branch of nanotechnology concerned with the design, study and application of synthetic structures based on DNA. DNA nanotechnology takes advantage of the physical and ...

But in 2024, the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Office sent more bones to Othram Labs for another DNA extraction, ...

First, law enforcement could use genetic information in civil or criminal cases. This happened in 2018, when police used the ...

Police found no record of the victim being in North Carolina and are asking the public for help in the homicide case.

The victim’s profile was loaded into two consumer genealogy databases, GEDmatch and Family Tree DNA. Both companies cooperate with police, according to CMPD. The CMPD Cold Case Unit partnered ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...

Law enforcement officers have used genetic profiles from home DNA kit companies in the past. In a 2018 case, law enforcement used a combination of genetic profiles from GEDmatch along with ...

If you were a 23andMe customer, your genetic and personal information could be used in civil or criminal cases, targeted ...