Madonna, who was raised Catholic and has Italian heritage, has referenced her rocky relationship with the Church numerous ...

Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

The co-founder of bankrupt genetic analysis company 23andMe won an auction for the firm’s assets, agreeing, along with a California research institute, to pay $305 million for a cache of customer DNA ...

Three inmates of Native American ancestry are suing Rhode Island’s prison system, claiming their religious rights are being ...

A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. joins Morning Joe to discuss Season 11 of 'Finding Your Roots'. Season 11 features appearances by ...

Minority groups, like Kurds, Balochs, and Ahwazis, could overthrow the ayatollahs’ dictatorship without direct American ...

As Juneteenth approaches, the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands — in partnership with American Ancestors® and the ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

A coalition of 27 states and the District of Columbia is suing a bankrupt genetic testing firm, 23andMe, to block the sale of ...

A dynamic DNA methylation 'barcode' on the X chromosome can distinguish thousands of individual adult male neurons and may record aspects of their development.