After 23andMe’s board of directors resigns, the president of encrypted messaging app Signal joins other security experts in urging 23andMe users to consider deleting their data.

The once-hot Silicon Valley startup has seen its stock’s value decline 99% and is struggling to survive. That has put the spotlight on the genetic data it has on 15 million people.

Me's financial troubles may lead to customers' genetic data exchanging hands if an acquisition occurs. Here's how to delete your 23andMe data beforehand.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by a Texas man who faces the death penalty for his role in the murder of an elderly mobile home park owner and is seeking DNA testing of evidence from the crime scene.

Ruben Gutierrez was sentenced to death for the 1998 Brownsville murder of an elderly woman. His execution was stayed in July.