“I uploaded my DNA and then they said if I was a match I would get a letter,” the woman told Newsweek.

Australians looking to learn more about their heritage through commercial ancestry websites could be helping police solve ...

Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA shared by millions of people with the company via saliva test kits.

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match in a DNA database would have been a dead end.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Changes to a DNA database will likely affect cold case investigations. The site Ancestry.com recently tightened restrictions for law enforcement, requiring a court order ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly two weeks after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona, home, law enforcement says a glove found not far from ...