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How Do We Stop Genetic Medicine From Perpetuating Inequality?

Eva Amsen 22/08/2019

Doctors must engender a feeling of trustworthiness to correct...

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Widely-Available Genetic Risk Tests Aren’t Always Useful – and Could Even be Harmful

Emma Kowal, Jacqueline Savard and Jeffrey Craig 04/07/2019

Most common chronic diseases are the outcome of complex...

DNA sequencing is inadvertently exacerbating social biases and inequalities

DNA Sequencing Is Inadvertently Exacerbating Social Biases and Inequalities

Matthew Stallard 29/10/2018

The cost of genealogical genetic testing and currently limited...

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Recreational Ancestry DNA Testing May Reveal More Than Consumers Bargained for

Catharine Wang 16/05/2018

More people are sending off saliva samples to find...

Even as National Geographic's new undertaking argues that race has no biological basis, the organisation is aggressively selling a product that uses genetics to quantify an individual’s membership in ancestral categories. Credit: Crisena Allen/ Flickr CC BY SA 2.0

For National Geographic, an Exploration of Race (and Commercial Opportunity)

Michael Schulson, Undark Magazine 12/04/2018

That the magazine’s spotlight on race comes coupled with...