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.
New software enhances efficiency, speed of genomic data analysis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An international team of ...
Are homeopathy, alternative medicine losing steam with consumers?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Homeopathy, the form of ...
Single blood test detects all genetically inherited heart conditions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A blood test has ...
Parents or surrogate: Who decides whether to abort pregnancy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When a woman agrees ...
Promising gene therapy could help kill tumors
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cancer scientists toiling in ...
Proving Zika link to microcephaly will take a lot more research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For weeks, Zika virus ...
Where do we draw line between genetic engineering and eugenics?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For a half-century, the ...
Drugs that target ‘epigenetic scars’ may reverse drug addiction
Research is mounting that not only does epigenetics play an important role in drug addiction, it may also provide a ...
Promising optogenetics procedure may restore sight to blind
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If all goes according ...
Could IVF babies face health problems later in life?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A leading evolutionary biologist ...
Mixed response from patient advocacy groups on prospects of gene editing therapies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The revolutionary gene-editing technology ...
Ultimate personal diet plan? Follow your genes
As the obesity problem in America continues, some scientists are looking at how food influences the way our genes behave ...
Do gene editing technologies pose public safety threat?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A senior geneticist and ...
‘Paleo’ diet out of step with human evolution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The article kicked off ...
Light buzz, or hallucinations? Gene predicts may how marijuana users react to high
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We've long known that ...
Mosquito sex change can help stop spread of Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Two US scientists have ...
Ancient human species interbred extensively, new discovery shows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The discovery of yet ...
3D printer fashions functional human muscle, cartilage, and bone
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A team of biomedical ...
What role does gene editing have to play in abortion debate?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Activists on both sides ...
What does Caribou Bio’s new patent mean for CRISPR dispute?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you ask people ...
Madonna may suffer from ‘DNA paranoia’
Madonna is famous for her work on stage particularly her singing and performing, but behind the scenes, she's famous for ...
Stress-mediating gene may be key to chronic pain therapies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Through glucorticoid signaling, the ...
Gene linked to heightened suicide risk identified
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetic tests on depressed ...
Claims linking Monsanto to microcephaly attributed to bad science, irresponsible journalism
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some agenda-driven online outlets ...
Zika found in brain of fetus supports virus’s role in brain damage, microcephaly
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Zika virus, thought ...
Biologists manipulate cells with tiny bacterial ‘nanospears’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Billions of years before ...
