Orange County assemblymember's bill would make grabbing someone's DNA without asking could be a crime.

AB 1727 would criminalize nonconsensual DNA collection and sale. Exemptions include law enforcement and companies following California privacy rules.

A Google DeepMind invention that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict how DNA mutations behave could have a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While genetic testing is not outright illegal in Israel, there are significant legal restrictions that limit access to DNA tests.

What happens when a genetic test unlocks long-held family secrets or other surprising results? Genetic genealogist Kelli Bergheimer answers.

I was one of the first to spit into a test tube, giving up my DNA forever to learn more about my health and heredity. You know, the ones that promise to connect you with distant relatives you didn’t ...

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 ...

Turmoil at 23andMe, a company offering popular at-home DNA testing, has upset the industry. Following the resignation of every independent member of the company’s board of directors, its chief ...

Testing the biological sex of an athlete is becoming more common in sport, with governing bodies defending the practice as ...

While genetic testing is not outright illegal in Israel, there are significant legal restrictions that limit access to DNA tests. In August 2024, a rumor spread on social media that doing a DNA test ...