Some of the largest DNA databases — Ancestry, 23andMe, and Helix — already refuse to share their databases with the police without a court order. What is their argument? Ancestry doesn’t want to lose the business of skittish serial killers?
A 63-year-old Missouri man realized he had become a half brother to seven different siblings 51 years later, after he took a DNA test using ancestry.com.
The popular genealogy company was loudly criticized for an ad that many saw as romanticizing the horror of slavery.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is touting a DNA test that shows she has, at most, 1/64 Native American ancestry, and possibly as little as 1/1024 — which means she may have no more Native American DNA than the average white American, and less than many other Americans.
Kelli Rowlette has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Gerald Mortimer and his associates for allegedly secretly using his own sperm to father her.
