Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Science is one of the most remarkable inventions of humankind. It has been a source of inspiration and understanding, lifted the veil of ignorance and superstition, been a catalyst for social change and economic growth, and saved countless lives.

  • The Physics of Melanin: Science and the Chaotic Social Construct of Race Bitch Media 2016-12-19 Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Research Associate Department of Physics University of Washington, Seattle It could have been earwax. It turns out that the texture of a person’s earwax is not determined by environment but rather is written into a person’s genetic…

  • Pharmacogenomics, human genetic diversity and the incorporation and rejection of color/race in Brazil BioSocieties March 2015, Volume 10, Issue 1 pages 48–69 DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2014.21 Ricardo Ventura Santos Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública/ FIOCRUZ & Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gláucia Oliveira da Silva Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil Sahra Gibbon, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow University…

  • The Color of American Genomics: Genetics in the Era of Racialized Medicine University of California, Los Angeles 306 Royce Hall 340 Royce Drive Los Angeles, California 90095 Friday, 2016-12-09, 13:30-16:30 PST (Local Time) SPEAKERS: Michael Montoya, Associate Professor University of California, Irvine Sandra Soo Jin Lee, Senior Research Scholar Stanford University Joan Donovan University of…

  • Race In The Northwest: Hood River Man Learns His Family’s Surprising Truth Oregon Public Broadcasting 2016-12-07 Anna Griffin, News Director Hood River writer and cidermaker John Metta. Anna Griffin/OPB Hood River, Oregon—John Metta grew up thinking of himself as mixed race: His mother was white. His father’s side of the family proudly proclaimed themselves a blend of…

  • A multibillion-dollar industry of skin-whitening products dominates the West African beauty market, creating a world of mixed messages for the women who live there.

  • You took a DNA test and it says you are Native American. So what? PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2016-11-24 Andrea Crossan, Senior Producer Boston, Massachusetts Have you been tempted to try one of those genetic testing kits, like the ones sold by Ancestry.com or 23andme.com? Maybe you’ve seen a commercial featuring Kim Trujillo.…

  • The New American Face The Atlantic 2016-11-21 James Hamblin, Senior Editor The least and most attractive male faces, based on statistical models. Leaders are stoking human tendencies toward tribalism—but this instinct can be overcome more easily than once thought. Since the election of Donald Trump, President Barack Obama has shifted into a prophylactic stance. He…

  • The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice Center For Health and Wellbeing Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs 001 Robertson Hall Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Friday, 2016-11-11, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander…

  • In An Election Defined By Race, How Do We Define Race? FiveThirtyEight 2016-11-06 Farai Chideya, Senior Writer When I was younger, I had an idea for a satire in which a group of rogue genealogists would get blood samples from racially incendiary white politicians. They’d run DNA tests on them to see if they were…