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.
With rise of agriculture came big changes in European genome
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The agricultural revolution was ...
What made Einstein’s brain so special?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Albert Einstein died ...
If peer review were a drug, it would never get on the market
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hundreds of thousands of ...
What do experts have to say on dangers, merits of gene editing?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gene editing holds great ...
Language matters when reporting gene editing stories
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Center for Genetics ...
Can a price be placed on human eggs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There’s something funny about ...
MRI of mother and child captures biggest questions in neuroscience
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A mother and her ...
Biohacking pioneer Ryan Bethacourt on why genetic engineering is tool for progress
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Note: This is an ...
Commercial gene tests can’t predict sports performance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Commercial genetic testing designed ...
Biology ‘designers’ build new organisms by DNA swapping
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. To make something that ...
Genes influence what medicine is right for you
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. You have a headache ...
Immune therapy for cancer needs the right gut stuff
A patient’s microbiome influences how well a new class of immune system cancer drugs work ...
First ever artificially engineered vocal cords grown in lab
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For vocal cords, producing ...
Does DNA really make you who you are?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The ad for Ancestry.com's ...
More than just BRCA determines breast cancer risk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Although testing women for ...
What contributions did ancient Denisovans make to modern human gene pool?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A mysterious extinct branch ...
Biohackers aim to turn bacteria into tiny insulin-making machines
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 370 million people ...
Personalized advice for healthy diet more effective than universal guidelines
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Take a slice of ...
Can insects be genetically engineered as bioweapons?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Gene drives” have enormous ...
Early eugenics movement first introduced biology to politics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For centuries, human hereditary ...
Will Chipotle’s food poisoning scare and Fukushima rethink help society overcome radiation phobia?
Hype about radiation dangers is ever present, as we live in a radiophobic society, but the Chipotle food poisoning incidents ...
Resistance genes found making bacteria impervious to all antibiotics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Well that’s ironic. As ...
Frozen embryos to be discarded in California divorce dispute
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A woman must abide ...
Genes predisposing childhood cancer identified, point to future treatments
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As a doctor who ...
US ceasing use of chimpanzees in medical research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The National Institutes of ...
Would you trust Facebook with your health records?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The American public does ...
‘Stem cell tourism’ pushing patients towards unproven procedures
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Stem cell scientists appear ...
