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The interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS) broadly attends to how scientific and technological knowledge systems, objects, practices, and discourses shape and are shaped by…

Intellectual property rights, such as patents, award inventors a temporary (generally 20-year) right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing their invention. They are granted to…

The integration of genetics into clinical practice offers the potential to revolutionize healthcare through personalized medicine. Yet, it also risks exacerbating existing health disparities if steps…

Engaging with communities in biomedical and genomic research is increasingly seen as critical for navigating ethical considerations, and a necessary part of the scientific process. Why? Meaningful…

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”…

Sex and gender diversity have long existed across cultures throughout history. Despite this, the harmful perpetuation of the gender and sex binary persists within all specialties of medicine,…

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…