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ancestry

Latest in ancestry

DNA tests promise to detail customers' ancestry — but in some cases, what the companies report is far more surprising than expected.
Gene Editing

DNA Tests Have a Nasty Side Effect: Discovering Your Parents’ Secrets

By Noor Al-Sibai

The private equity firm Blackstone just purchased Ancestry as well as its massive databse of customers' genetic information.
Data Privacy

A Private Equity Firm Just Bought the Largest Consumer DNA Database

By Dan Robitzski

23andMe and other DNA ancestry companies can revise people's results as they gather more data and update their database about genetic information.
Science & Energy

23andMe Is Updating Ancestry Results Without Telling Users

By Dan Robitzski

Startups that sequence your DNA have a new target market, according to a new story in The Atlantic: your long-dead ancestors.
DNA

DNA Ancestry Startups Have a New Target Market: The Long-Dead

By Jon Christian

Just two percent of adults would have to upload their DNA to genealogy sites before you could use a DNA sample to find a relative of virtually anyone.
Health & Medicine

Creeps Will Soon Be Able to Find Almost Anyone on Genealogy Sites

By Jon Christian

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DNA

Spotify Will Make a Playlist Based on Your DNA

By Jon Christian

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