Hannah Lovaglio's first son entered the world a month early. Nurses bustled in and out of the hospital room during his first days of life and frequently pricked his heel to check his blood, Lovaglio ...

Four parents in Michigan jumped into a long-running ethical debate over the collection and storage of newborns’ blood samples by suing to force the state to destroy their children’s samples or ...

In October, the City Council introduced a bill to limit the NYPD’s collection of DNA samples. Co-sponsors Diana Ayala and Donovan Richards seek to prevent gathering samples from minors without their ...

A new Ohio law requiring anyone arrested on a felony charge to submit a DNA sample has more than doubled the amount of samples the state collected for its DNA database last year.The law that took ...

An overburdened administrator plus a lack of checks and balances in the now-defunct State Medical Examiner's Office created a situation in which the DNA samples of more than 1,600 Delaware criminals ...

Virginia authorities have launched a massive review of the state's DNA database after discovering that thousands of felons may have skirted a legal requirement to submit genetic samples, partly ...

The Delaware medical examiner's office had completed its transfer to the state's newly formed Division of Forensic Science in July 2014 when the scandal-plagued agency received more unwelcome news. A ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMGF) today announced, in conjunction with the 2010 National Genealogical Society Family History Conference, that its ...

“NIH conceived this program a few years ago, around the time specifically targeted treatments for cancer (depending upon DNA) were being launched,” said Dr. Vivian Fonseca, chief of endocrinology at ...