When we first wrote this article, it compared 23andMe and Ancestry. Since then, 23andMe has experienced a data breach, a subsequent lawsuit, board members' resignations and layoffs amidst financial ...

Genetic ancestry plays a key role in determining the behavior of head and neck tumors and may help explain why African-American patients survive for half as long as their counterparts of European ...

Ancestry.com apologized Thursday for a controversial advertisement published to its YouTube channel earlier this month. The ad appeared to show a white man trying to convince a black woman in what ...

Consumer genetics and genealogy company Ancestry announced a new feature, called SideView, that will give customers information about which bits of their DNA — and which parts of their ethnicity — ...

Ancestry-specific biomarkers, such as POLB, could reshape diagnostic and prognostic approaches in head and neck cancer. New ...

Ad operations don’t always get easier when a publisher has a strong first-party data foundation to build on. Ancestry.com can ...

PA’s Commonwealth Court is considering a case that could determine whether digitized historical records belong to the public or are controlled by Ancestry.com.

Ancestry has long appealed to people eager to learn about their family roots. Now the company known for its popular DNA kits is diving into a new area of discovery – health. Tuesday, Ancestry launched ...

A really awesome thing about being black is that ancestry can be very unclear because of, you know, slavery. Enter DNA kits. In 2013, I sent over my spit kit to 23andMe. After a couple of weeks, ...