In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.

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What started as a fun peek into ancestry quickly turned into life-altering information for many of these people. The stories ...

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DNA can sustain serious injuries called double strand breaks, in which both strands of the helix snap. These breaks are among the most dangerous forms of DNA damage and immediately trigger the cell's ...

Authorities are using forensic genetic genealogy to try to identify a man whose body was found along the Schuylkill River in ...