Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. 23andMe, which provides medical and ancestry-related genetic testing, has filed for bankruptcy after it was unable to find a ...

How? DNA testing, or genetic ancestry testing, involves the comparison of DNA belonging to an individual with other DNA submitted from people across the globe. It’s typically conducted for ...

Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, involves obtaining DNA from a sample of cells in your body to identify specific genes, chromosomes, or proteins, including those that are faulty (known as ...

March 27 (UPI) --The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will retest more than 4,000 DNA samples after announcing it used a faulty testing kit for at least eight months. The sheriff's office ...

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said this week it will retest 4,000 DNA samples and open an internal investigation after learning that it ...

According to the department, the manufacturer of DNA test kits used by LASD sent out a notice last year, notifying clients that a recent batch of tests were “prone to intermittently poor ...

Some 4,000 samples will need to be retested. Los Angeles County has been using potentially faulty DNA test kits in criminal investigations for months. According to the L.A. County Sheriff's ...

In August, a manufacturer of DNA testing kits sent a letter to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department warning officials to stop using certain test kits that had proved prone to giving ...

The sheriff’s department said the bad test kits should not have resulted in false positives to wrongly implicate an innocent person. Based on the information provided by the DNA testing kit ...

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Track and field is set to become the first Olympic sport to require participants in women’s events to undergo DNA testing to prove their biological sex following a decision by World Athletics.

Geoff Bennett: The genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy. And its potential sale has raised alarms about what could happen to the DNA data of its millions of users. 23andMe was ...