Akihiko Yamamoto recently connected with his American sister, Sharon Lovell, whom he never knew existed. For most of his life ...

Kits sold directly to consumers to check a variety of health metrics provide little value when it comes to guiding health ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A bankruptcy judge approved the sale of 23andMe's assets and business operations to a nonprofit led by 23andMe’s co-founder ...

Anne Wojcicki’s bid to buy 23andMe, the genetic testing company she cofounded nearly 20 years ago, has received the court greenlight. That means Wojcicki’s nonprofit ...