Have you ever wondered about your genetic ancestry or familial health risks? Or perhaps needed legal proof of biological ...

Outsourced labs have now processed 914 of 1,000 Orleans Parish sexual assault kits that were once part of a backlog awaiting ...

DNA testing company 23andMe announced that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 23. Customers send vials of their saliva to 23andMe for results on ancestry and health. The company can run ...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, pretty much everybody is familiar with this technology: paper-based rapid test strips, also ...

Sometimes, they just put it off, said Dr. Antoine Pham, an internal medicine doctor with Thrive Medical. He has started prescribing a new kind of screening — the Shield blood test — for his patients ...

Joni Owens is the medical coordinator for the Mountain West SANE Alliance and works out of a yellow brick house in downtown ...

The legislation builds on initiatives to track kits and address backlogs in Cumberland, Kennebec and Penobscot counties.

As the mail-in genetic testing boom continues, sparked by the likes of Chris Hemsworth, experts are warning consumers to ...

A sharp, funny woman with shoulder-length white hair, Susan tells me her story from her sunny front room somewhere in ...

Because she looks the way she does, she gets a lot of “What kind of dog is that?” comments, to which there’s no answer but “I ...

The FDA has approved a new at-home test for common sexually transmitted infections and diseases. The test for chlamydia, ...

Evanston’s Reparations Committee discussed a potential partnership reconstructing African ancestry with DNA testing Thursday.