New DNA testing from a sexual assault kit helped reveal that a man was wrongly convicted of rape over 40 years ago in Ventura ...

More than four decades after he was convicted of rape, Richard Luna was declared innocent in Ventura County Superior Court ...

On Thursday, the 1983 rape conviction of Richard Luna was vacated after recent DNA testing of evidence collected at the ...

Texas sexual-assault survivors now have a quieter route to forensic DNA testing that does not require calling the police. A ...

A new Texas law allows for forensic medical exams for sex assault survivors even if no report has been made to law ...

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 ...

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A lawyer representing the Brown sisters and their mother said their grief was “compounded by this putative heir all of a ...

This image depicts a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist, who was punching holes in a card containing the genes of an inactivated virus . The scientist was using a disposable ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Millions of Americans have used at-home DNA test kits. Now there are new concerns over who has that information and what they can do with it. It didn’t have to be ...

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If your estate plan was created before the DNA testing era—or hasn't been updated to account for these new realities—now is ...