Pharmacogenomic testing can tell how a drug is likely to work in a certain person. But is it ready for rolling out to the wider population?

In today’s Dear Abby, a man who learned through DNA testing that he may have an unexpected niece struggles with how to respond as his brother grapples with the revelation.

A woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann turned up at the home of her parents with a letter signed as their missing daughter demanding a DNA test, a court has heard. Jurors heard that Polish-born ...

Austin police outlined how a new, rapidly unfolding DNA and ballistics evidence trail led them to declare a dead man as the likely perpetrator in the killing of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt ...

Doctors can order genetic tests for people at high risk of breast cancer, and insurance often covers those, Kamal says. For people without a clear genetic risk or who don't know their family health ...

If you’ve ever thought about taking a DNA test to see where your heritage stems from, or to see if you have a long-lost, ideally famous, cousin you didn’t know about, then there’s no better time than ...

The team looked for genetic changes that cause or influence breast cancer (Alamy/PA) More than 15,000 women a year who have breast cancer in the UK would benefit from tests that analyse DNA for ...

A year after a USA TODAY investigation revealed that police around the country weren’t following up on DNA evidence from unsolved rape cases, the Justice Department has published a report urging them ...

Islamic scholar Dr Sharafdeen Gbadebo warns Muslim couples that DNA tests to determine paternity are forbidden, citing Islamic procedure of Lian instead.