DNA testing

"Our relationship is everything I could have hoped for," said one of the women after finding her sister after many years apart.

Access to genetic data should be tightly controlled, with a transparent and verifiable system of regulations in place to determine who may utilize such information and for what purposes.

Barbara Brock believes the remains belong to her brother, Bobbi Eugene Shaw, who went missing 45 years ago.

"Jesus Christ that twist at the end. Of all the things I expected, that was NOT the one," one user commented.

DNA matching recently led law enforcement to provide closure to the relatives of a woman killed decades ago.

"Do they think I genetically modified it? It's been a rollercoaster of emotion," Colin Craig-Brown said of his possible record-breaking find.

"I can't imagine being willing to walk away from my child," one commenter wrote.

Police in Boulder, Colorado, have been working with state investigators on "future DNA advancements," the police department said Monday in a statement.

The remains found in Twinsburg, Ohio in 1982 were recently identified by local authorities as Frank Little, who had been missing for over 40 years.

"I think we found each other when we were supposed to," said Linda Hoffman, 73, of her 76-year-old sister, Harriet Carter.

Police in Nevada said Thursday the identity of a 1980 murder victim was confirmed through new DNA testing, and are reopening the investigation into her death.

Using a genealogy database, police were able to identify the murderer from unidentified blood that was left at the original crime scene.

In a Facebook group, the TikToker discovered there were over 50 siblings who shared the same sperm donor for a father.

The Charleston County Coroner's Office utilized "advanced DNA testing" to identify the individual whose two feet were found still in sneakers.

Sonia Carmen Herok-Stone was a single mother when she was killed in 1981.

More than 1,100 military personnel died aboard the Arizona, more than any other ship, at Pearl Harbor.

"There was a huge part of my life missing," said 86-year-old Issy Carr.

While the secrets range from the wholesome to the disturbing, they're all massively entertaining to read.

Two Russian families were shocked to discover that their daughters, born on the same day at the same place 38 years ago, were accidentally swapped at birth.

A county in Ireland is taking curbing your dog to the next level; DNA testing is being implemented to find and punish irresponsible dog owners who fail to pick up their dog's waste from public places.

In the video, which has racked up nearly 500,000 views, @mattilathehut shares the unfortunate aftermath of being gifted a DNA testing kit.

Trump reauthorized funding to help states clear the backlog of more than 100,000 rape kits across the country, despite previous GOP opposition to part of the allocation.

Ancestry is opening up 260 million U.S. military records to Americans for free this Veterans Day weekend

After DNA testing revealed that fertility doctors were using their own sperm for in vitro fertilization, three states passed legislation making the practice illegal.

April Alley has requested DNA testing in the case of her father, Sedley, who was executed for the 1985 murder of Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne Collins. Now the courts must decide if the estate can lobby for such testing.

This is just one example of how DNA collection can harm or help investigators.

The family of Cameron "Todd" Willingham, unjustly executed in 2004, urge to test DNA in Sedley Alley's case—which was never done before Alley was executed in 2006.

"Giving the bones to the Halbachs confirms the State's belief that not only were they human—they belonged to Teresa Halbach," said Kathleen Zellner.

Once DNA sampling begins, the process could take six months to obtain the first results. A number of other obstacles will likely slow the process.

Scott Michael Johnson, 26, has been identified as the 1,642 victim in the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001.