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The previous chapter defined race, ethnicity, and biomedical research and concluded by discussing the complexity of their intersection. Building on those conceptual foundations, this chapter begins ...

Humans are far more similar than they are different, and more interconnected than most individuals realize. At the genetic level, any two people are more than 99 percent the same as each other, no ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately ...

Race and ethnicity, defined (sort of) In US parlance, race refers to a group of people who share physical traits – such as skin color, hair texture or eye shape – based on some common ancestry. That ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to assess the use of the social constructs of race and ethnicity in biomedical research. The study will ...