New Health Ministry guidelines aim to increase pool of sperm donors, reduce risk of genetic illnesses among offspring. The ...

Groundbreaking research at Seattle Children's Hospital provides critical genetic diagnoses for newborns within 48 hours.

Your ZIP code as a child may have predetermined your financial future in ways you never imagined. New research shows geographic location creates lasting credit score gaps that persist regardless of ...

John was abandoned as a newborn and grew up with no knowledge of where he came from. Then one Christmas that changed.

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“Surprise heirs like Thomas are popping up because of DNA test kits,” according to the Wall Street Journal article. While ...

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

For 47 years, Heather Lally never knew her dad. Then a DNA test connected her to the birth father she didn't know she had, a ...

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A quality improvement initiative improved rates of lipid screening among children and adolescents and may improve downstream ...

A sperm donor whose samples helped conceive nearly 200 children across Europe unknowingly carried a cancer-causing genetic mutation — a hidden risk now tied to multiple childhood illnesses and early ...