Science startup Heliospect Genomics is marketing a contentious service that allows wealthy couples to screen their IVF embryos for traits like intelligence, raising ethical concerns among experts. The service costs $50,000 to screen 100 embryos.
Spanish researchers have claimed that DNA and other analyses indicate that Christopher Columbus likely came from a Jewish family in Spain.
In a stunning collapse of leadership for the former Silicon Valley darling 23andMe, all seven independent members of the DNA testing company’s board of directors resigned en masse this week, leaving CEO Anne Wojcicki as the sole remaining board member.
A North Carolina woman was arrested in connection with a 1987 cold case of a newborn baby who was found dead in a dumpster in California, the New York Post reported.
Both Republicans and Democrats in Alabama are working to carve out exceptions for in vitro fertilization (IVF) after the state’s Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that frozen embryos are considered unborn children under state law.
Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) is reportedly protecting a CCP-linked biotech firm after it was accused of stealing Americans’ DNA.
Millions of user records from DNA testing company 23andMe have been leaked online by a hacker, marking the second significant breach in recent weeks.
A baby who has the DNA of three different people has been born in the UK, a report on Tuesday has revealed.
An in-depth genetic study of the German composer’s DNA has dispelled longstanding myths and claims the composer had African roots.
Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his, according to DNA testing.
A Louisiana couple accused of killing their baby girl in 1992 is in custody, thanks to DNA evidence and investigators’ determination to solve the case.
A suspect has finally been arrested in a more than four-decades-old California murder case after DNA from a 1994 rape helped identify him.
Authorities say they have finally identified a California woman found in a refrigerator 27 years ago with the help of DNA technology.
A new poll shows growing support for the eugenics-based idea of selecting human embryos during IVF based on “intellectual aptitude.”
A skull found in Alaska in 1997 along the Porcupine River belongs to a man who went there to hunt in the 1970s.
The use of DNA to arrest Bryan Kohberger for the murder of four college students in Idaho reminds me that it’s time to bring the death penalty back in a big way.
As the world gets worse in so many ways, there’s one way it’s better. (Unless the ACLU gets its way.)
The DNA of a Clark County, Nevada, Democrat official has been found at the scene where police say Las Vegas Journal-Review investigative reporter Jeff German was murdered.
Bio-weapons are being developed that use specific DNA to target and kill individuals through their medical profile, a Democrat member of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee warned Friday.
A man from Pennsylvania has been accused of killing a 19-year-old woman nearly 50 years ago after investigators were finally able to get his DNA sample.
A cold case expert who helped identify the “Golden State Killer” says there could be 2,000 bloodthirsty serial killers living in the U.S.
Liu Jiacheng, a member of China’s National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), recently submitted a proposal to the body suggesting Beijing help fight human trafficking by establishing a “nationwide DNA database for kindergartens and primary schools as soon as possible,” the Global Times reported Sunday.
A woman’s torso was discovered in a bag inside of a New York City shopping cart early Thursday morning, police say.
The DNA on a coronavirus mask left discarded at the scene of a break-in helped the Chicago Police Department arrest a burglary suspect.
A DNA test on hair from the Native American leader, Sitting Bull, recently confirmed his great-grandson is a 73-year-old man living in South Dakota.
A bioscience and genetics company named Colossal has reportedly raised $15 million as part of a project aiming to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life.
Reuters reported on Wednesday that a Chinese company called the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has been selling prenatal tests developed in collaboration with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and using them to harvest genetic data from millions of pregnant women around the world.
President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly set to end a Trump-era proposal that tried to expand the number of immigrants required to give biometrics for their applications.
CBS News on Friday published details of an upcoming 60 Minutes segment on Chinese biotech firms reportedly attempting to harvest DNA from Americans using coronavirus tests.
A DNA search led police to a man who allegedly raped and killed a 14-year-old girl in Rochester, New York, in 1984; authorities arrested him at his Florida home, officials announced Friday.
Hong Kong police collected DNA samples from people arrested on suspicion of violating the city’s new national security law last week, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Monday.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continued to forcibly collect Chinese citizens’ DNA samples en masse –part of its “world’s largest” police-run DNA database – during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, especially in rural areas of China, human rights magazine Bitter Winter revealed Thursday.
Concerns about China acquiring the DNA of American service members prompted the Pentagon to issue an advisory late last year.
Border officers will start collecting DNA samples from detained migrants who are trying to get into the United States, agency officials confirmed Friday.
God forgive me the unending pleasure I’m receiving while relishing in Elizabeth Warren’s national face plant.
A Texas school district had to take “corrective action” over a homework assignment in biology class where students were asked about rape during a lesson on DNA.
An attendee of a New Hampshire town hall confronted Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) over her past claims of Native American heritage, prompting another admission from the Massachusetts senator, who said she “shouldn’t have done it.”
Nothing about faker-than-fake Democrat frontrunner Elizabeth Warren is faker than her Medicare for All scheme.
Border agencies can use DNA testing to help identify and track migrants when they enter the United States, according to a rule issued Monday by the Department of Justice.
The Department of Homeland Security is drafting plans to greatly expand DNA identification of migrants who plead for asylum or try to sneak across the border, according to Buzzfeed News.
