Human Genetics 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: The chilling impact of the virulent spread of anti-science thinking
"Anti-scientific thinking" is a bad disease of our time, and one which may affect a wide range of human beings, ...
Podcast: The Human Genome Project is 30 years old. What have we learned since its inception?
In this episode we bring you an in-depth interview with Dr Eric Green, director of the US National Human Genome ...
How to assess the real safety risks of getting a COVID vaccine shot
It seems like we might have a vaccine on the way and some of this madness will stop. But, like everything ...
Viewpoint: Uganda battles anti-GMO, anti-vaccine coalition agitating against COVID-19 immunization
A handful of activist groups are now working in tandem to undermine Uganda’s plans to inoculate its population against the ...
Will ‘cancel culture’ claim Darwin?
Given the scientific and political luminaries who have fallen under the axe, it’s not beyond possibility that Charles Darwin himself ...
Why evolution always goes in one direction
The diversity and complexity of life on Earth is astonishing: 8 million or more living species – from algae to ...
Viewpoint: Great Barrington Declaration arguing for herd immunity ‘takes page from denialist propaganda playbook’
When you’ve been examining pseudoscientific and quack claims for over two decades, you start to recognize patterns in the strategies ...
Final weeks to approval: NIH’s Anthony Fauci and FDA’s Peter Marks on what’s ahead before we can expect a safe COVID vaccine
As tens of thousands of people participate in phase 3 clinical trials on COVID-19 vaccine candidates, the focus is turning ...
Cut carbs? Eat less, move more? Why the spat between low carbers and calorie counters is pointless
Part of my introduction to nutrition was reading books my mom picked up second-hand at rummage sales back in England ...
It’s not going away: We need a real, non-political debate about the best way to live with COVID or countries will fracture
In 1968, at the height of the last great influenza pandemic, at least a million people worldwide died, including 100,000 ...
New England Journal of Medicine sets aside 200 years of politics, editorializing FDA and CDC have been compromised, calling political leadership ‘dangerously incompetent’
Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world. This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options ...
Podcast: From Philadelphia to Baltimore—Tales of Chromosomes, Cancer Cells and Henrietta Lacks
In this episode we’re taking a road trip from Philadelphia to Baltimore, exploring stories of chromosomal cut-and-paste, cancer cures and ...
Viewpoint: The choosiness myth — Why are there fewer women in science?
In 1879, French polymath Gustave Le Bon wrote that even in “the most intelligent races” there “are a large number of ...
Infographic: 5 different ways COVID vaccines work
COVID vaccine hesitancy is on the rise, perhaps in the wake of pressure to speed approval beyond scientific reason. But I think ...
Video: Vaccine expert Paul Offit talks with Medscape’s Eric Topol on the pitfalls and promise of COVID ‘Operation Warp Speed’
[Editor's note: This interview can be watched in full at Medscape. Watch it here. Read a transcript of the interview ...
How anti-Semitism shaped the genes of Jewish people
Evidence of past outrages is not only in the history books. It's also written in our genomes ...
How COVID-19 resembles a sexually transmitted disease
Viruses walk a fine line between severity and transmissibility. If they are too virulent, they kill or incapacitate their hosts; ...
The Goldilocks phenomenon: Why as many as 45% of patients get COVID and show no symptoms
One of the reasons Covid-19 has spread so swiftly around the globe is that for the first days after infection, ...
Regenerative medicine and war: The next breakthrough in treating injured veterans?
Many Americans, and indeed people all over the world, were outraged when reports surfaced this past summer that President Trump ...
