News on Science, Medicine & Public Health
For many critical applications ranging from health care to social sciences, releasing personal data while protecting individual privacy is paramount. Over the years, data anonymization and synthetic data generation techniques […]
Law influences and is shaped by the emergence of race-based biotechnologies in the genomic age. This review examines how law and social science scholars have approached the role of legal […]
In the 1980s, Margaret Atwood, Gena Corea, and other feminists imagined dystopias in which white women’s reproduction was valued and privileged and the reproduction of women of color was devalued […]
An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era. Though the Human Genome Project proved […]
In July 2015, an app posted to the repository hosting service GitHub claimed to use genetic data culled from the ancestry testing company 23andMe to potentially limit a user’s access […]
As more organizations and industries adopt digital tools to identify risk and allocate resources, the automation of racial discrimination is a growing concern. Social scientists have been at the forefront […]
Objective. This article analyzes sickle cell patient families’ responses to stem cell transplant recruitment efforts. It identifies key dynamics that explain why sickle cell patient families are not undergoing stem […]
Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments—good or bad, […]
This project explores the relationship between planetary topographies, ecologies in the midst of quarantine, and abstract soundscapes. Ari Melenciano has materialized this relationship through an audio-visual webVR platform. Each of […]
The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health […]