Many adoptees are submitting their DNA for analysis in hopes of finding their parents and other ancestors, only to get results that further confuse them. They might have matches for several cousins of ...

A group of the world’s leading biologists have called for an immediate halt on a technology you’ve probably never even heard of — but is so dangerous, they say, that it could upend the order life ...

Julie Lingenfelter Moyer looks at photos of her great-grandmother, Ruth Russell Koontz, at the Blair County Genealogical Society in Hollidaysburg. Moyer used DNA testing to help figure out how Koontz ...

Faithful readers of the “Roots & Branches” column will know that Eric “Rick” Bender of New Mexico is probably the column’s most prolific correspondent. I’ve met Bender in person, too, a few times over ...

A rapid DNA testing machine displays 77 minutes remaining on a 90-minute test. The use of rapid DNA testing is becoming more widespread across Connecticut as an evidentiary tool. Credit: Mark Mirko / ...