After Lucy Benton completed her breast cancer treatment 16 years ago, she thought she was done with cancer. Then last year, the...

Geneticists view “race” in a far more complex way than the average census taker. For centuries, authors, researchers, and politicians...

This article originally appeared in Genome, and received a 2015 Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism from the Association of...

Sarah Tishkoff, Ph.D., has lost count of the trips she’s made to Africa since 2001 to study the continent’s genetic history. “By looking...