After Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said a genomic test linked part of his ancestry to the Indian subcontinent, an expert explains how ancestry DNA tests work and why South and Southeast Asian ...

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 ...

Shaena Rieckermann learned the truth about her birth father when she was 25 years old. But it took decades for her to come to ...

When we first wrote this article, it compared 23andMe and Ancestry. Since then, 23andMe has experienced a data breach, a subsequent lawsuit, board members' resignations and layoffs amidst financial ...

Michele Desrosiers was contacted by a woman who appeared to be her half-sister—that was only the tip of the iceberg though.