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Ancestry lays off 100 employees as DNA test demand dwindles. Ancestry has announced that it had to lay off six percent of its ...

Recently, my dad discovered a family secret: In the 1960s, one of his first cousins, now deceased, fathered a previously unknown child with a woman who placed the baby for adoption. The records were ...

The best home DNA kits provide us a window into our ancestry, genetic traits, and overall health. They can trace family roots, reveal inherited characteristics, and even help you discover distant ...

For more than 40 years, the Golden State Killer haunted California. A serial rapist and murderer active in the 1970s and '80s, he eluded detectives for decades. By 2018, hope of identifying him was ...

When former New York Gov. George Pataki issued an executive order in 2005 to expand the state's database of DNA profiles, a provision required funding for the Innocence Project, a program that uses ...