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 ...

A woman did a DNA test on her adopted dog just for fun—only to get a life-changing result. Lily, 37, who posts to Reddit under the username u/30to40cats, adopted American pit bull terrier, Cricket, ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

The Galleri test, by American company GRAIL, can detect over 50 types of cancerous DNA with a simple blood test. How the cancer screening test works.

Scientists at Northwestern Medicine have developed a new genetic risk score that predicts who is most likely to experience irregular or dangerous heart rhythms. The test merges several types of ...