January 2023

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What prompted you to start working on this project?  RG: I needed to find some G6PD variants with a range of activities for an experiment I was planning. As I was reading the literature, I was finding reviews and following the trails back to the original... Read More

ASHG recently responded to a select number of questions in a Request for Information (RFI) from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on the National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative. OSTP released this RFI to seek public input on how advances in biotechnology and biomanufacturing can help support a strong bioeconomy. The insights... Read More

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)—and the research community it supports—believes in the power of human genetics to advance science, health, and society. However, ASHG and the field have failed to acknowledge, fully and consistently, the misuse of human genetics to serve unjust ends or take action to denounce such use. As the community’s... Read More

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 10:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, (202) 257-8424,  press@ashg.org Report and Board of Directors statement acknowledge contributions to racism and silence in the face of unjust uses of human genetics, as well as the organization’s pivots toward justice ROCKVILLE, MD – The American Society of Human... Read More

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? CC: I would say the project started with the first author of the paper, Xin Sheng, who is a staff scientist here in the Center for Genetic Epidemiology as USC. It was really her unrelentless tenacity to track down a quality... Read More