It was the day before her 18th birthday when the pregnancy test read positive.

Men's groups are calling for mandatory paternity testing of all newborns after revelations that one in four Austrailian men who submit paternity tests discover they are not the father of children they had believed were theirs.

More and more people in the UK are following America's lead in spending hundreds of pounds on private genetic tests.

It has been one of the original sins etched in the ancient testaments, but its practitioners are now feeling the heat, thanks to new age technology.

A woman yesterday told an East London court that her ex-lover and his new girlfriend switched blood samples taken for a paternity test so that the man could avoid paying her maintenance for their child.

A Weslaco woman is suing a Weslaco Lab and her ex-boss and lover, accusing them of doctoring DNA paternity results.

A forensic scientist who performed a CSI-style examination of her husband’s underpants to see if he was cheating has been fired from her job for misusing the police crime lab.

All South Africans are settlers, regardless of their skin colour, and their DNA carries the proof.

Birth certificates need to record accurately whom the biological parents are, not only for the legalities, but also because of any medical issues, and concerns of ancestry that may arise.

This staggering probability of one in 14 trillion is very impressive and persuasive, given that the population of the Earth is about 6.5 billion, but is it accurate?