How a DNA database's new policy is changing police access and could hinder solving cold cases. GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. By Emily Shapiro. May 22, 2019, 8:11 AM.

23andMe’s bankruptcy — and the looming questions around its hefty genetic database — should serve as a cautionary tale, Geoghegan added, for anyone that has shared their DNA with a genetic ...

DNA databases have been expanding, and rapidly improving technology is poised to generate more detailed profiles more quickly. The question now is what the future will look like, particularly in ...

Ancestry created a new feature that allows the company to tell users which parent they inherited various bits of their genetics and ancestry from. It relies on the company database.

But the city’s database, which contains more than 31,800 profiles and is known as the Local DNA Index System, includes DNA from people like Ms. Leslie, who have been arrested or questioned but ...

The DNA on those items matched to DNA left at one of the crime scenes, according to investigators. DeAngelo plead guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison ...