At-home DNA testing kits offer insights into ancestry, but also claim to be able to tell you your risk of certain diseases, or even give you unique diet advice.

The Rhode Island Genealogical Society has been devoted to assisting residents with learning more about their ancestries for more than five decades.

Patients and doctors need to have access to them and patient privacy must be protected at the same time, the author writes.

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...

Seed Health and the Two Frontiers Project want home aquarists to send in samples of their corals, to learn what conditions ...

A British study is considering how human DNA is used in animal experiments and determining what the boundaries of such controversial science might be.

Genetic analysis revealed that the DNA samples from the mummies mostly matched human genetic profiles, despite some contamination and technical challenges common in ancient DNA research.

A Tennessee Republican senator is urging the Department of Homeland Security to implement DNA verification and fingerprinting ...