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Today, once marginal far-right political parties are supported by a growing proportion of the electorate. Some far-right figures insist that foreigners are and will always remain fundamentally…

The co-evolution of computational processing power and neural network models has made revolutionary developments in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) possible. One type of GenAI, large…

All medical information is subject to uncertainty, but the practice of medical genetics is characterized by unique magnitudes and forms of uncertainty. In fact, for many patients, a “positive”…

Transgender (trans) describes an individual whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. In the U.S., approximately 2.6 million people (~1% of the population) identify as…

The number of genomic loci identified to be associated with psychiatric disorders have substantially increased over the last decade. Alongside developments in polygenic embryo screening (PES; or PGT-…

The fields of genetics and genomics are at a historically significant crossroads. After more than a century of criticism concerning the use of racial categories in human biological research (by a…

Nearly 75 years ago, countries agreed to an International Bill of Human Rights, that included, among other fundamental rights, a right to privacy, a right to science, and a right to health. Cohesive…

Rare diseases, most of which have a genetic basis, collectively affect an estimated 300 million individuals worldwide and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Although less than…

The development and use of an expanding range of medical technologies that yield genetic information about embryos and fetuses has raised ethical questions about whether and how this increasingly…

The lack of diversity in human genomics research and reference datasets is a known problem, with real-life consequences, but the path forward remains elusive. Solutions to the problem of sampling…