Politics Mar 23 Supreme Court rejects appeal from Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed over DNA testing By Mark Sherman, Associated Press
Nation Nov 27 Watch 5:13 Finding family: a reporter shares her personal story of adoption and reunion Kaomi Lee is one of the many Koreans who was adopted as a child, brought to a new country and raised by parents of a different race. She still doesn’t know her biological parents, but her decision to share her… By Kaomi Lee, Twin Cities PBS
Arts Feb 28 'Inheritance' is our March book club pick After submitting her DNA for analysis to an ancestry website in 2016, Dani Shapiro received a piece of news that rocked her to the core: The man who had raised her, her now-deceased father, was not her biological kin. By Courtney Vinopal
Science Nov 07 Watch 6:47 A father took an at-home DNA test. His son was then falsely accused of murder Genetic genealogy, the technique millions of people are using to learn about their family history, has now become a potent tool with which law enforcement can solve crimes. But the method has major privacy implications that are prompting some critics… By William Brangham, Nsikan Akpan, Rhana Natour
Science Nov 07 Genetic genealogy can help solve cold cases. It can also accuse the wrong person. For law enforcement, the case for using genetic genealogy is strong. But it's not foolproof. By Nsikan Akpan
Mar 12 Years-old rape kits are being tested around U.S. with help from Manhattan DA, DOJ By Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, spurring over 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in three years, officials say. Continue reading
Feb 04 Watch 3:12 Author Dani Shapiro on the power and danger of family secrets After taking a DNA test on a whim, author Dani Shapiro discovered that her beloved late father had not been, in fact, her biological parent. She had been conceived using a sperm donor, and as was common at the time,… Continue watching
Oct 16 Cherokee Nation says Warren is 'undermining tribal interests' with DNA test By Associated Press A Cherokee Nation official said Monday that DNA tests are useless to determine tribal citizenship. Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch Ore. Discovery Challenges Beliefs About First Humans Until recently, most scientists believed that the first humans came to the Americas 13,000 years ago. But new archaeological findings from a cave in Oregon are challenging that assumption. Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Television reports on the controversial discovery. Continue watching