EditorialJose Echevarria, who has Huntington’s disease, a hereditary, progressive neurodegenerative illness caused by a genetic mutation, at the home he shares with his mother and sister in Piojo, Colombia, May 8, 2023. (Charlie Cordero/The New York Times)
EditorialJose Echevarria, who has Huntington’s disease, a hereditary, progressive neurodegenerative illness caused by a genetic mutation, at the home he shares with his mother and sister in Piojo, Colombia, May 8, 2023. (Charlie Cordero/The New York Times)
EditorialMonica Monfre Scantlebury, who discovered she had the BRCA1 genetic mutation in 2017, in St. Paul, Minn., on Jan. 27, 2022. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times)
EditorialMarilynn Duker, who has a cyst on her pancreas that doctors fear may turn into cancer, outside her home in Pikesville, Md., April 29, 2022. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)