Bloomberg looks into privacy issues raised by law enforcement's use of genetic genealogy sites.
After the arrest of the Golden State Killer, ethicists say the government must delineate acceptable limits for future uses of public DNA databases.
Bavaria expands its forensic genetic analyses to include DNA phenotyping, raising discrimination concerns.
The Virginia-based firm's genetic genealogy service for forensics played a central role in a recent arrest in a 30-year-old double homicide case.
Genetic genealogy has led to an arrest in another cold case, dating back to 1987.
Parabon NanoLabs is partnering with law enforcement to use genetic genealogy approaches to solve cold cases, Buzzfeed News reports.
Science speaks with Columbia University's Yaniv Erlich about using genetic genealogical data to identify people.
A familial match at a genetic genealogy site has led police to make an arrest in the decades-old Golden State Killer case, the Sacramento Bee reports.
Thermo Fisher said that IntegenX complements and enhances its existing human identification product portfolio.
The New York City medical examiner is overseeing an effort to identify missing persons using DNA, according to the Associated Press.
A draft bill released by the US House of Representatives appropriations committee would increase the 2019 National Institutes of Health budget by 3 percent.
NBC News reports on the Earth BioGenome Project, which aims to sequence all eukaryotic life on Earth.
In Science this week: environmental DNA can help in studies of marine animals, and more.
