Australia

The tomatoes we eat have been carefully bred over generations, but now we can tap into wild varieties.

Commercial DNA testing services and crowdsourced genetic databases are helping people find long-lost relatives.

But a recent American case shows how these platforms can be used in criminal investigations, sometimes without a warrant or prior consent.

DNA forensics was once reserved for official police labs, but thanks to the internet and a new wave of start-ups, those official barriers are wearing away. (By Caitlin Curtis)

All Australian schools should provide high-quality education to all Australian students, including Indigenous ones.

Could criminals edit their genomes using cheap online kits to avoid being matched to criminal forensic databases?

Our ability to reconstruct physical features from DNA is advancing, but can we ensure the privacy of "anonymised" genetic data if we can predict the face of its owner?