Maybe you’ve heard of the missed jury duty scam. A scammer, pretending to be a law enforcement officer, calls someone at random and threatens them with arrest because they failed to obey a jury duty ...

A man from Missouri named Jamie P. McNamara has admitted guilt in a massive scam that tricked Medicare out of millions of dollars. This scam involved fake genetic testing for cancer and heart disease.

Genesis Health System is warning patients about a scam about DNA testing. A Genesis patient reported receiving a phone call about a doctor requesting a DNA test, said Craig Cooper, Genesis Health ...

Bev Beatty allowed a genetic testing company to run a booth at a senior health fair she organized in Oak Forest, Ill., last year. At least 10 seniors took the tests. Afterward, she was irate to ...

Genetic tests are making their way into primary care settings — for example, Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger will offer DNA sequencing to 1,000 patients in June and Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford ...

New DNA testing from a sexual assault kit helped reveal that a man was wrongly convicted of rape over 40 years ago in Ventura County, officials announced Thursday. Ventura County District Attorney ...

There's a lot of genetic data out there. We're still figuring out how to use and protect it. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive ...