Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA shared by millions of people with the company via saliva test kits.

France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.

Millions of people's genetic data may be up for grabs soon. Has yours already been taken? 23andMe, the genetic testing company that had consumers sending in swabs of their saliva to discover their ...

On a special episode (first released on April 16, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: The recent bankruptcy of genetic testing firm 23andMe has raised alarm bells for privacy advocates and consumers worried ...

Croatia has become the latest EU member state to sign a declaration driving efforts to link up access to existing and future genomic databases across the EU and make at least one million sequenced ...

Six health systems — Advocate Health (Charlotte, N.C.), CommonSpirit Health (Chicago), Six health systems — Advocate Health (Charlotte, N.C.), CommonSpirit Health (Chicago), Henry Ford Health (Detroit ...

Launch of Professor V: A genetics research chatbot specifically designed for geneticists and scientists to explore biomedical literature, evaluate hypotheses, and summarize evidence with speed and ...

Yet the accuracy of this technology depends on something deceptively simple: whether we have enough genetic reference ...

Various corners of the media and internet are hyperventilating over the alleged genetic privacy implications of the imminent Chapter 11 bankruptcy of the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company ...