People tend to believe populations are more diverse than they are
14 April 2022
In 12 psychological experiments with a total of 942 participants, 82 per cent overestimated the presence of individuals from minority ethnic groups
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Chronic pain in Black people in US may be linked to gene expression
28 March 2022
Stress-linked changes in the activity of genes may be why Black people in the US often have worse chronic pain than white people
Genomic medicine is deeply biased towards white people
20 January 2021
Lack of diversity in genome studies means that treatments derived from them are leaving people of colour behind. Changing that isn’t only about justice – it could also lead to new therapies that would otherwise go undiscovered
Systemic racism: What research reveals about the extent of its impact
18 November 2020
We spoke to five researchers working to demonstrate the various ways that racial discrimination is embedded in the structures and procedures that underpin US society
US police kill up to 6 times more black people than white people
24 June 2020
Police in the US kill black people at a higher rate than they kill white people. In some areas the rate is as much as six times higher
The return of race science: an interview with Angela Saini
2 June 2020
In her recent book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini examines what she calls the “subtle” return of race within mainstream science.
