Curated Video
Pioneering Privacy Law Runs Into More Trouble In Maryland
Newsy has learned Maryland missed a key deadline in the rollout of new ancestry DNA privacy rules, another sign of trouble for the stalled law.
Curated Video
How Your DNA Data Can Be Used Against You
Christian Bryant explores the legal question of 'Who owns our DNA,' and concerns about what happens when genetic info can be used against our consent.
Curated Video
Protecting Consumer Privacy As DNA Testing Booms
Arizona, California, Florida, Maryland, Montana and South Dakota have passed legislation to protect consumers' genetic privacy.
Curated Video
Maryland Quietly Shelves Parts Of Genealogy Privacy Law
Maryland set limits on police access to ancestry websites. But state leaders stopped rolling out some of the new law, a Newsy investigation finds.
Bloomberg
Your DNA Is Probably Out There, Like It or Not
Mar.02 -- Police around the U.S. have embraced "genetic genealogy," which uses DNA consumers offer up to the internet to identify criminal suspects. The method has helped solve rapes and murders dating back to the 1970s. But a key facet...
Curated Video
Siblings Meet For First Time Following Kentucky Tornado
Sean Lynch and Judy Saxton spent decades apart — then devastation brought them together.
Bloomberg
Former Facebook Executive to Make Ancestry.com More Social
Aug.27 -- Ancestry.com CEO Deb Liu talks to Bloomberg's Emily Chang about her plans to make the world's largest consumer genealogy website more "social".
Curated Video
Two services launching just a week apart tap a growing interest in DNA testing to help people find their ancestors and learn more about their lives.
Web sites offer DNA testing
Two services launching just a week apart tap a growing interest in DNA testing to help people find their ancestors and learn more about their lives. (Oct. 23) 2007
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Curated Video
Barack Obama in traditional German lederhosen? It may be hard to imagine, but researchers in the U.S. say they have located documents that prove the president has German roots dating to the 1700s.
HEADLINE: Researchers say Obama has German roots
CAPTION: Barack Obama in traditional German lederhosen? It may be hard to imagine, but researchers in the U.S. say they have located documents that prove the president has German roots...
Bloomberg
23andMe CEO on Telehealth: Sun Valley
23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki speaks with Ed Ludlow at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference about healthcare trends, findings from a long covid study, and a telehealth acquisition.
Curated Video
Pentagon Warns Military Personnel To Not Use DNA Tests
The Pentagon is citing concerns that the popular tests will provide an opportunity for security breaches.
Curated Video
'Search angels' find survivors of California wildfire
In the aftermath of Northern California's catastrophic wildfire, social media sites filled with posts from people trying to find loved ones in and near the town of Paradise.
Curated Video
‘Angels’ locate survivors of California wildfire
In the aftermath of Northern California's catastrophic wildfire, social media sites filled with posts from people trying to find loved ones in and near the town of Paradise.
Curated Video
How Are Genetic Tests Changing Families?
Algorithms identify those who share many genetic markers, making them very likely to be close relatives.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : PROFILE: Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey
Profile of world-renowned Kenyan conservationist and politician Richard Leakey, who unearthed evidence that helped to prove humankind evolved in Africa and died at age 77 (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
PBS
What Was the Ancestor of Everything?
As part of evolution species branch off of others species. But what did the original limb look like? Young scientists discover the exciting study of the last universal common ancestor as they hear from specialists in multiple scientific...
Crash Course
Why Human Ancestry Matters: Crash Course Big History #205
Genetic variation makes for stronger species, but for a mammalian species, humans are disturbingly closely related. Help your class explore human ancestry and genealogy using the 15th video in a 16-part series. It describes how we became...
PBS
Pbs Frontline: Secret Daughter
PBS FRONTLINE tells the story of a biracial daughter and the white mother who gave her up. Content also includes a focus on the blurred racial lines of famous families. Includes a written transcript of the FRONTLINE episode "Secret...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Evidence of Common Ancestry & Diversity
In this video, Paul Andersen describes several types of evidence for common ancestry. This evidence is contained in the fossils, embryos and molecules of living organisms. Even though life on our planet is incredibly diverse there are...