Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. DNA might contain health information, but unlike a doctor’s office, 23andMe is not bound by the health-privacy law HIPAA.

These days, testing your DNA is easier than ever. There are many at-home DNA testing kits to choose from, so all you need are DNA samples to learn more about your heritage and family history.

You can edit what information becomes public or private on the site, and how you want to appear to other users if your DNA matches with someone else. You'll have an opportunity to review all ...

Each of these things — along with every other organism on Earth — contains the molecular instructions for life, called deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. Encoded within this DNA are the directions ...

Their approach, developed for ancient fragments of DNA from Neanderthals, was more sensitive than earlier methods. When they analyzed Hauser’s mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA — genetic code ...

As opposed to gene-level mutations, mutations that alter longer stretches of DNA (ranging from multiple genes up to entire chromosomes) are called chromosomal mutations. These mutations often have ...

But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all ...

Chances are you've seen an illustration of DNA's double-helix structure and even pictures of the chromosomes that comprise the human genome. But where and how does the famous double helix fit into ...

If stored as DNA, every film ever made could be stored in a space smaller than a sugar cube Scientists say they have made a major step forward in efforts to store information as molecules of DNA ...

A decade after the dairy discovery on strikingly intact remains mummified by the Taklamakan Desert’s arid conditions, scientists have extracted and sequenced DNA from the 3,600-year-old cheese ...

Francis Crick and James Watson with a model of the DNA molecule At midday on 28 February 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson walked into The Eagle pub in Cambridge and announced “We have ...