Daily Human Digest
Every day, the staff of the Genetic Literacy Project scours the Web for stories on a range of human genetics issues, including gene editing, regulations and bioethics, gene therapy, epigenetics, personal genomics, evolution, ancestry and artificial intelligence. We publish excerpts of those stories and encourage our readers to visit the original publications for the complete stories.
Why do we sleep?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. why do we sleep? ...
Discovery of fire likely evolutionary boon for early humans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How and when did ...
US government seeking 1 million volunteers for decade-long genetics and lifestyle study
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Government scientists are seeking ...
Women may be more resilient to Alzheimer’s genes than men
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Certain gene variants are ...
How many genomes is enough for US Precision Medicine Initiative?
FDA head says Precision Medicine Initiative should sequence one in every four Americans. Where will that money come from? And ...
CRISPR gene editing could eliminate AIDS virus
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. ... The problem faced ...
‘Unsung heroes’ of CRISPR often overshadowed by growing celebrity of lead discoverers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Today, CRISPR is a ...
After 8 years and $8 million, gene therapy begins for 12-year-old with rare neurological disorder
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [July 21, 2016], 8 ...
Another modern myth: Shrinking attention spans
Are modern conveniences and technology causing our attention spans to shrink? No, actually they're just adapting ...
Primates, bacteria of microbiome evolved together
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The symbiotic relationship between ...
Thousands of studies over 3 decades may have used contaminated or misidentified cell lines
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The problem is this: ...
In ‘Redesigning Life’, analysis of ethical issues of gene editing falls short
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In Redesigning Life, molecular ...
What happens when we die? Microbes in your ‘necrobiome’ take over body
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What happens when we ...
Treatment used for wound healing may reverse menopause, restoring menstruation and fertility
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. MENOPAUSE need not be ...
Synthetic bacteria programmed to deliver cancer drugs inside body directly to tumor
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A synthetic genetic circuit ...
Human Connectome Project maps brain’s cortex into 180 distinct compartments
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new brain map, ...
Transhumanism and 2016 Presidential race
Trump? Clinton? Johnson? How about Zoltan Istvan, he's the Transhumanist Party 2016 presidential candidate ...
First human CRISPR trial to be conducted in China to treat lung cancer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chinese scientists are on ...
What’s behind expansion of personalization of healthcare?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to the Cleveland ...
Why has ‘Glowing Plant Project’ failed to deliver on promises?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Glowing Plant Project ...
MRI scan could replace IQ test for measuring human intelligence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [A] new MRI scanning technique could ...
UK House of Lords approves trials with GM mosquitoes to fight insect-borne diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The House of Lords, ...
DNA pioneer James Watson calls Obama’s cancer moonshot initiative ‘crap’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. James Watson, whose 1953 ...
Slavery, discrimination profoundly impacted DNA of African-Americans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Understanding the connection between ...
Same genes can make someone happy or depressed, depending on environment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Combining research on genetics ...
40th anniversary of NASA’s Project Viking and beginning of search for Martian life
40 years ago, Project Viking first landed on Mars. NASA would conclude that the project found no evidence of life ...
U.N. human rights panel urges Kuwait to amend its mandatory DNA testing law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A U.N. human rights ...
