Experts caution those using these services to be careful, as you may not always get what you want from biological relatives.

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - With the help of Othram ’s advanced DNA testing, remains that were found in Reno in 2023 have been ...

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward ...

In genetics, scientists must analyze the genomes of millions, if not billions, of people, each carrying millions of variants. It’s an unfathomable amount of data. Which leads us to another central ...

Two Michigan men have been charged after one of the men allegedly used the other to impersonate him in a court-ordered DNA ...

Mary Harris was strangled on April 28, 1988, in the hotel room where she’d been living. Police turned to Shawn Tanner, a part ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

More than four decades after he was convicted of rape, Richard Luna was declared innocent in Ventura County Superior Court ...

The Harbin cranium, known as Dragon Man, is one of the most complete ancient skulls ever found and may represent a newly ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, they uncovered a living legacy inside most people alive today. A small but ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Researchers studying Denisovan ancestry within East Asian populations found an anomaly in the lineage of the Jomon people. The group has little to no Denisovan ancestry, showing that this lineage ...