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

AncestryDNA is holding a holiday sale with its DNA kit available for $29, an 80% discount. Customers can bundle a DNA kit with a 3-month membership for a total of $30. The sale offers various tiers, ...

Though you have to take the ancestry portion of an at-home pet DNA test kit with a grain of salt, these tests can be helpful for practical things like figuring out blood type, oral health, and the ...

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Angie Claudio-Rodriguez was raised Catholic but felt a “deep connection” to Judaism she never understood. Throughout her life, family members told her different things about her heritage, said Claudio ...

Israel's Ministry of Health has detected a flaw in the kits used to identify a mutation in the MECR gene, associated with a rare neurological disorder more prevalent among Ashkenazi Jews. The problem, ...