Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into ...

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When scientists want to trace how a species has changed over time—and predict its prospects for survival—they turn to DNA.

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As these DNA test stories show, you truly never know what you’ll find in your family tree! It could be a surprising lineage—or a dark family secret. The craziest DNA test stories Every day, DNA test ...

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For more than four decades, the home invasion rapes of two women went unsolved, California prosecutors say. Now, with help from DNA testing, Sean Patrick McNulty, who died in 1997, has been identified ...

A man who took in a stray dog after a hurricane always assumed he knew at least one major part of her breed history—only to find he was completely wrong. Jay, 38, who posts to Reddit under the ...

Advanced DNA testing has confirmed that human remains found nearly 50 years ago in Lee County were those of a man named Charles Howard Wallace, the Arkansas State Police announced on Friday. The ...