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California to receive $6 million in 23andMe data breach settlement

After a 2023 data breach and a bankruptcy and sale process in 2025, genetic testing company 23andMe will pay $6 million to settle allegations it did not protect customers' data.

23andMe Settles for $6 Million Over California Data Breach

Chrome Holding Co., formerly 23andMe, reached a $6 million settlement to resolve allegations that the genetic testing company failed to protect personal information and genetic dat...

Are at-home DNA tests accurate? What they can and can't tell you about inherited health risks

  At-home DNA tests have revolutionized personal health insights, but understanding their accuracy requires examining the underlying technology. These tests typically analyze singl...

Can a cheek swab screen for 7,442 genetic disorders?

SugarStrings says its proprietary machine learning-based crawler identifies novel mutations with 94.89% accuracy, allowing it to analyse genetic data across more diverse population...

The DNA discovery boom: How at-home tests are rewriting American family trees

  Ten years ago, finding out you had a half-sibling two states over took something dramatic, like a deathbed confession or a box of letters someone forgot to burn. Now, it arrives...

Machine Learning Meets Forensic DNA: SNPs That Identify Relatives and Separate East Asian Populations

A team of forensic geneticists in China has shown that a panel of roughly 2,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, paired with machine learning algorithms can reliably ident...

The New Age of Self-Discovery: What Genetics Can Reveal About Who We Are

A few decades ago, learning about personal genetics largely belonged in research laboratories and specialist settings. Today, a small cheek swab can produce a report containing inf...

ASHG: Long-Read Genomics Meets Clinical Data in PacBio, Verily Health AI Deal

A multi-year collaboration will connect PacBio's HiFi sequencing with Verily Pre, combining long-read genomic and clinical data for biomedical research and AI model development. Th...

ASHG 2026: Landmark UK Biobank, IMU Immune Profiling Initiative Taps Ultima and Waters

IMU Biosciences and UK Biobank will profile 80,000 blood samples using technologies from Waters and Ultima Genomics, creating a high-resolution immune dataset to advance AI-driven...

Your Ancestry Can Affect Alzheimer’s Risk Estimates. A New Genetic Score Is More Reliable

Researchers built a polygenic risk score from a more diverse database, improving estimates for people often underrepresented in earlier tests.

Rare EGFR mutation sharply raises lung cancer risk in large genetic study

An observational study of 3.3 million research participants found that inherited EGFR T790M was associated with 25-fold higher lung cancer risk overall and more than 60-fold risk a...

What To Check Before Taking an At-Home DNA Test

Learn how to compare at-home DNA tests, understand privacy policies, interpret health reports responsibly, and choose the right test for your goals.

AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA

We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.

Your Genes May Help Shape Your Personality, Health, Income, and Even Where You Live

A landmark Nature study of up to 1.14 million people identified 1,260 genetic variants, including 824 newly discovered spots, that link the Big Five personality traits to lifelong...

For Two Sisters, a “Biological Age Test” Measured More Than Their DNA

They thought it might explain why their health had diverged. Instead, it stirred up feelings that weren’t so easily quantified.

AlterMe Review: Fitness Built Around My DNA

Six months with AlterMe’s smart ring and a fitness app helped me build better habits, but the genetic insights were less revealing than I’d hoped.

Thirty Million Compartments: Testing Single-Molecule PCR’s Potential

Countable Labs has named Fred Hutchinson its first certified service provider, currently serving researchers across the Seattle region. And the company is continuing to build its l...

Google’s map of every possible DNA typo could speed up rare disease research

DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a petabyte of precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome, free for academic use. Its head...

Google unveils AlphaGenome Atlas mapping DNA mutation effects

AlphaGenome Atlas Catalogs 9 Billion Genetic Variations

DeepMind’s latest artificial intelligence system, AlphaGenome, marks a significant leap in decoding the complexities of the human genome. With over 3 billion base pairs to analyze,...

Her family kept getting cancer. At 33, a saliva test explained why.

Michelle York got tested for Lynch syndrome, an under-diagnosed and symptomless genetic condition that raises cancer risk.

Meta-analysis of over 8,000 individuals from Hawai‘i and Samoa for genetic associations to cardiometabolic phenotypes

by Bryan L. Dinh, Xinran Wang, Xin Sheng, Peggy Wan, Amit Kumar Srivastava, Take Naseri, Satupa‘itea Viali, Lynne Wilkens, Loïc Le Marchand, Christopher Haiman, Daniel E. Weeks, Ch...

What’s the Best Pet DNA Test? We Tested the Most Popular Ones

I sent my cats’ saliva to the lab to get health and genetic insights sent to my inbox—with very different results.