Race, widely used as a variable across biomedical research and medicine, is an appropriate proxy for racism — but not for anything biological. Proposals to use genetic ancestry instead of race are at ...

Since the human genome was first mapped, scientists have discovered hundreds of genes influencing illnesses like breast cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Unfortunately, Black people, ...

The International African American Museum received another large gift ahead of its opening next month that will further its mission in providing genealogy research. New York Life Foundation provided a ...

When it comes to history, especially Black history there is so much still untold. Alonzo Felder has made it his mission to capture and share some of those stories. When it comes to history, especially ...

It's a question that has vexed researchers from the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak: Why do some people get severely ill and die from COVID-19, while others have mild symptoms or none at all?

Before she was celebrated on the front page of the New York Times. And before her name appeared in a Final Jeopardy! answer. Karen Batchelor was a teenager, who for a year in her life rode two Detroit ...

Interest in tracing family ancestry soared during the pandemic, according to the National Museum of Bermuda. The museum’s online genealogy database was used more than ever in 2020, prompting the ...

DETROIT – It's a question that has vexed researchers from the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak: Why do some people get severely ill and die from COVID-19, while others have mild symptoms or none ...

When Ancestry.com embarked on a massive project to collect nearly 40,000 newspaper articles tracing the lives of 183,000 enslaved people in the United States, the date Aug. 22, 1862, could have ...