How Stalin’s Ghost Haunts American Medicine

May 11th 2026 12:17pm EDT

In 1940, Nikolai Vavilov was arguably the greatest botanist alive. He had spent decades crisscrossing the globe — visiting more than 60 countries — to collect seeds and understand how agriculture could feed a hungry world. He built what was then the largest seed bank on Earth, containing over 200,000 specimens. He was, by any […]

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