The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the underlying biological dangers of being a minority in the US.

An investigation reveals that the government is developing technology to try to reconstruct a person’s appearance based on a genetic sample, raising concerns for the rights of Muslim minority groups in the country.

A new analysis finds that black scientists tend to propose projects that have lower rates of funding from the National Institutes of Health than other fields.

In long-distance, physically taxing events, the amount of energy athletes can expend appears to peak at about 2.5 times their metabolic resting rate—a maximum likely dictated by how many calories they can digest.

A study finds professors from underrepresented groups more actively engage in diversity and inclusion activities.

Better treatment and diagnoses have helped more people survive, but economic disparities in outcomes for some preventable cancers have gotten worse.

The NIH epidemiologist has worked to ensure genetic health and population genetics studies contain data from African—not just European—populations.

The paper’s authors say bias may nevertheless be present in other steps of the granting process.

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2018 issue of The Scientist.