Human Features
The GLP tackles innovations in human genetics and biotechnology. We highlight the work of our own writers, as well as that of contributors from around the Web. The GLP does not take a position on genetics-related issues; any opinions expressed belong to the authors.
Categories include:
- CRISPR and gene editing
- Gene therapy
- Stem cell research
- Genetic diseases
- Synthetic biology
- Epigenetics
- Biodrugs (pharmacogenetics)
- Personal genomics
- Ancestry and evolution
- Ethics and regulations
Viewpoint: Trump poised to politicize all U.S.-supported science research
I recall the precise moment I realized U.S. science was in for a very rough time. My wife and I ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: The ‘woke’ crusade against anthropology? Dr. Elizabeth Weiss
Museums are now reburying both 12,000-year-old human skeletons and presenting creation myths as factual history—while critical research on the first ...
World’s first AI-designed vaccine explained
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed what they describe as a fundamentally new type of vaccine using artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Viewpoint: How politicized science became a political religion
Political science is a social science that studies the workings of government. Lately it seems to have picked up a ...
Viewpoint: The Lackland flu outbreak is fading but Hegseth’s military anti-vaccine fiasco is not
The flu outbreak at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland has now become more than a military installation health problem. It is ...
Viewpoint—Gutting the CDC: Survey of current and past CDC workforce accuses RFK, Jr. and Trump of destroying the agency and endangering public health
Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, the workforce at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...
Ideological red flag: Led by anti-vax doctor, Tennessee is now the U.S. epicenter selling potent ivermectin shown worthless to prevent or treat Covid
Four years ago, Tennessee became the first state to allow adults to buy the antiparasitic drug ivermectin from a pharmacy ...
Transgender female athletes and Title IX: Separating ‘policy’ from ‘legality’
The Supreme Court on [June 30, 2026] ruled that states can exclude transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports teams. The ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: Legalized weed drives drug addiction, psychosis?
Drug legalization is supposed to spur several critical improvements in public health. As more states legalize recreational marijuana, we're beginning ...
Viewpoint: Disinformation grift: The wellness industry is a lucrative and mostly worthless marketplace of ‘balms, brews, and baloney’
Wellness used to mean getting your vitamins from food and eliminating waste in a toilet. Today it means supplements, colonics, ...
Even in blue states, hospitals have continued to drop gender-affirming care for youths
One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who ...
Viewpoint: The dangerous influence of ‘woke’ post-modernism in science
From an article in Science magazine by journalist Rachael Zamzow, we learn that many social scientists believe that a published ...
Viewpoint: Appreciating a simpler past without swallowing the misleading ‘nature is healthier and safer’ myth
There is a woman who lives on my For You page. She has wild curly hair and a wardrobe of ...
America’s trust in Trump-Kennedy’s CDC health recommendations is plunging
More than a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, poll findings released on [June 9, 2026] showed that trust in federal ...
Anguished parents, doctors in tears: Utah’s long measles outbreak takes a toll
Ben Dowse hadn’t expected to treat measles when he became a doctor, but there he was, examining a newborn exposed ...
Viewpoint: More and more younger men are falling outside our health system. What can reverse this?
Recently, on a podcast, someone asked me how public health should be communicating about vaccines to young adults, and I ...
Kennedy’s nutrition prescription for medical schools: Real problem, bad cure
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has turned a recognized challenge — medical students receive too little ...
The challenge of responding to a measles outbreak in a vaccine-skeptical community
James Mu had braced for the call that came in late January. A patient from his rural Northern California county ...
Viewpoint: As the International Association for Research on Cancer loses influence, activists and trial lawyers scramble to protect a lucrative playbook
This past week, US Department of State, together (nominally) with the Department of Health and Human Services, effectively discredited any ...
Daubert for Dummies—Scientific Reliability in U.S. Courts: Daubert, Rule 702, and Made-for-Litigation Evidence
A New York federal appeals court is poised to decide one of the more consequential courtroom battles over scientific evidence ...
Viewpoint: Embryos are becoming the newest battleground of love, loss, and legal uncertainty
Who owns a future-person? As IVF outpaces the law, embryos are becoming the newest battleground of love, loss, and legal ...
AAP v. Kennedy: While a court challenge grinds on, RFK Jr. quietly advances his anti-vaccine conspiracy agenda
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) v Kennedy litigation is now running on two parallel tracks. Legal actions are under way both ...
Viewpoint: While unvaccinated children are dying overseas, Congress challenges Trump and Kennedy’s block on aid
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is calling on the Trump administration to restore US funding for Gavi, the Vaccine ...
Turmeric supplements: More risks than benefits
Turmeric supplements have become a booming “natural” health product, promoted for everything from inflammation and joint pain to general disease ...
Viewpoint—‘The gleeful efficiency of an arsonist’: Administration’s health and science research cuts are ‘sabotaging’ America’s future
There is a word for what the federal government has done to American science during the past year and a ...
Is the World Cup a perfect storm for the spread of infectious diseases?
When the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins on June 11, 2026, matches will be played across 16 cities in the United States, ...
Viewpoint: “Turn on, tune in, drop out”—Kennedy embraces the Timothy Leary psychedelic revolution
U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is sticking his fingers into many pies. One of these contains psychedelics that are ...
