When a person with cancer finds out they carry an inherited genetic variant that puts them at higher risk of cancer, the ...

Dr. Hua-Jay Cherng, a hematologist oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, discussed how ctDNA ...

Cologuard and other at-home tests are not intended for and have not been tested in people with Lynch syndrome. Furthermore, ...

Multicancer early detection tests hold great promise for finding cancer early enough to save lives, but there are caveats ...

Stephen Paul Gale is on trial for the rape of two Framingham store employees in 1989. The case went unsolved for years, until a renewed push to test the evidence for DNA led investigators to Gale, who ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed who has sought to test crime-scene ...

A new study has demonstrated that we now have the tools to study the incredibly complex ecosystems of caves in near real-time ...

My husband, “Benny,” recently took one of those family DNA tests. To make a long story short, he learned that the man who ...

A new blood test could change the outlook for one of the deadliest cancers—pancreatic cancer—by catching it much earlier than ...

For nearly five decades, a woman found dead in a California snowbank was known as "Emigrant Gap Jane Doe." Thanks to DNA ...

Scientists traced Leonardo da Vinci’s Y chromosome through living relatives, a breakthrough that may confirm his true burial ...