Researchers are finding links between people’s genes and complex attributes such as socioeconomic status and the time spent in school. The worry is that their results will be misconstrued, states an article in Nature. It cites a new Hastings Center project that will examine the field and advise researchers and stakeholders on how to conduct and talk about the work. The project is headed by senior research scholar Erik Parens.

In an interview in Longreads, Hastings research scholar Gregory Kaebnick explains why he doesn’t consider the genomic modification of species for conservation purposes to be either unnatural or unethical.

Hastings Center scholar Erik Parens and Hastings Center Fellow Paul Appelbaum, a professor at Columbia University, write in Stat about the findings of a recent special report published by the Hastings Center Report.

Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger told CNN about the patchwork of community-based and government providers currently providing health care to undocumented immigrants