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.
Did “hobbits” and modern humans live closer together in time?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. New research suggests that ...
Scientists believe drug response connected to ancestry, not race
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Each year in the ...
Should we use gene editing to stop spread of invasive species?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Every year, the mouse ...
CRISPR ignites clash between two inventors and their ethics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Every decade or so, ...
Genetics-based fitness plans may loom in far future
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The pitch is tough ...
NFL’s 49ers, biotech company join forces to recruiting fans for genome research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Donating blood is not ...
CIA director warns gene editing may threaten national security
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Advances in genome editing pose ...
National Academies urge US agencies to reject updates on research rules
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On June 29, a National ...
Chinese startup plans on using DNA to create digital health avatars
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Chinese start-up company, ...
Robots and humans focus on different things, indicating neural gap
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers at Facebook and ...
Analysis on specific genetic pathways may uncover roots of autism
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The number of genetic ...
Will testing Elizabeth Warren’s DNA resolve Native American heritage dispute?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After Senator Elizabeth Warren emerged as ...
Rhesus macaques provide scientists with model to study Zika, could lead to vaccine, treatments
Our fight against the Zika virus may have gotten a big lift with the announcement of a working primate model ...
Do GMO mosquitoes designed to eradicate Zika pose unique environmental risks?
Could we live without mosquitos? Maybe, but something else might take their place ...
Germs found on transit system barely pose threat, despite popular belief
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The subway is crowded--and ...
Scientists believe they have uncovered all major genes linked to bowel cancer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to a study by ...
Genetic evidence may direct Alzheimer’s research away from amyloid beta as cause
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Previous research has revolved ...
Nature editorial: Gene therapy must proceed slowly in light of past perils
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Despite having a condition ...
In Zika fight, should we prioritize our environment over human lives?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Zika is a real ...
Health experts provide differing views on cancer moonshot initiative
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In advance of the National ...
Microbe genes key to minimizing environmental damage from Deepwater Horizon spill
Bacteria were instrumental in cleaning up the largest oil spill in world history. Does this mean a future for microbes ...
Could CRISPR on humans spell end to heart disease, high cholesterol and diabetes?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Could gene editing spell ...
Seagulls may aid spread of E. coli strain that resists ‘last-resort antibiotic’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to the Center ...
What determines our personality: Genetics, environment, or both?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to a study published ...
Should patients have choice of knowing their personal genetic information?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Personal genome sequencing may ...
Early CRISPR advocate urges biotech peers to consider communal impacts, perform science in the open from the earliest stages
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Two years ago, Kevin ...
Ten years after discovery, induced stem cells revolutionizing research, but not yet medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In June 2006, Shinya ...
