In the last week, police have arrested two suspects in unrelated cold cases thanks to data gleaned from open-source ancestry site GEDMatch. GEDMatch contains around a million genetic profiles that ...

If you’ve been exploring your family tree through GEDmatch—which used to be a niche genetic genealogy site—you should know that they’ve been bought by a forensic genomics firm, Verogen. The privacy ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the ...

Venlo, the Netherlands, and Germantown, Maryland, Sept. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that Bode Technology, the largest private U ...

GEDmatch has helped crack cold cases through users' DNA. The new owners of GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped investigators crack cases using DNA, have vowed to protect users' ...

As more details emerge about the arrest of the man suspected to be the Golden State Killer, it’s clear that one of the most infamous unsolved cases of all time was cracked using a popular free online ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- California investigators in April announced a stunning breakthrough in a decades-old cold case: They used DNA from the "Golden State Killer" and an ancestry website to identify a ...

While frustrated California detectives looked fruitlessly for a man accused of brutally raping 45 women and killing a dozen more people, one of his relatives was likely busy seeking information to ...

Consumer genomics company Ancestry has confirmed it fought two U.S. law enforcement requests to access its DNA database in the past six months, but that neither request resulted in turning over ...

23andMe, Ancestry and others agree to genetic privacy guidelines They’ll obtain ‘express consent’ before sharing certain data. Mallory Locklear Contributing Writer Updated Tue, July 31, 2018 at 9:47 ...

Authorities tried to gain access to Ancestry's massive DNA database with a search warrant last year, the genealogy company has revealed in its transparency report. Ancestry divulged the information ...