More and more people are finding their biological relatives via DNA testing, only to be pulled into an emotional and costly fight over inheritance. A recent report in the Wall Street Journal ...

At-home DNA kits reveal unknown heirs, sparking inheritance disputes. Estate planners must adapt strategies to protect ...

A big meditation on the meaning of ancestry and family. We'll talk to the author of the celebrated new book "Inheritance." When I was a girl I would sneak down the hall late at night once my parents ...

These days, having your DNA analyzed is almost as common as owning a smartphone, so when Dani Shapiro jumped on the trend, she thought she was just taking a measure of her genetic heritage. She didn’t ...

Of all the millions of people who have spit into a plastic vial and sent their DNA off to have it analyzed, writer Dani Shapiro might be the most prepared for what happened next. The core of Shapiro’s ...

Transferring the nuclear genome from one egg into the cytoplasm of a donor egg is a strategy to enable women carrying mutations in their mitochondrial DNA to have healthy babies. A new study uses ...

A big meditation on the meaning of ancestry and family. We’ll talk to the author of the celebrated new book “Inheritance.” When I was a girl I would sneak down the hall late at night once my parents ...

A DNA test, taken on a whim, leads to a startling result and a big meditation on the meaning of ancestry and family. Author Dani Shapiro tells her story in the celebrated new book, “Inheritance.” She ...