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.
Trial involving genetically engineered cancer-killing cells halted over patient deaths
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Three patients in a ...
Pioneer of ‘3-parent embryo’ seeks to move technique from lab animals to humans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Shoukhrat Mitalipov]’s one of ...
World celebrates 155th birthday of Nettie Stevens who discovered sex chromosomes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Born 155 years ago ...
Media again mangles epigenetics: Shutting off ‘love hormone’ unlikely to make us less social
LA Times coverage of a study involving the 'moral molecule' overstates the science of epigenetics ...
Microsoft predicts DNA as future of data storage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Microsoft] reported [July 7] ...
Why haven’t we cured cancer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. MEDICINE has done a ...
Discovery of stalagmites, burned bones provides insights into pre-modern Neanderthal culture
A new cache of artifacts found in a French cave are evidence of a rich Neanderthal culture and a reminder ...
Where does cloning stand 20 years after Dolly the sheep?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Why are there no ...
DNA origami may lead to more complex biological structures
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ten years after its ...
New “ink” allows experts to view effects of stem cells in real-time
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As if body art ...
“Embryonic” chimeras may solve critical organ shortage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The idea of a ...
Biotech companies now using CEOs as human guinea pigs for new drugs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As CEO of biotech ...
President Obama explains why America needs precision medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. HEALTH CARE is always ...
Genetic test can predict Alzheimer’s disease risk in teens, but how accurate is it?
A new test predicts Alzheimer's disease risk in young people, but experts question how accurate it really is ...
Newest genetic test can predict Alzheimer’s risk at very young ages
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. New research into the ...
Should scientific community embrace germ line gene therapy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Until now, only one ...
Nature editorial urges FDA to tighten stem cell regulation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. You may have heard ...
Designer babies would allow parents to select child they feel most fit to raise, says bioethicist
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The stream of breakthroughs ...
Dentists may start using stem cells to fix teeth
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since the 1700s, people ...
Medsphere CEO calls for Human Genome Project for mental illness
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Human Genome Project ...
CRISPR may destroy herpes virus present within almost all humans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Almost all of us ...
Florida community split on using GM mosquitoes against Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With Zika creeping north ...
Dolly the Sheep’s creator wants to create ‘biobank’ to preserve endangered animals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A modern-day “ark” that ...
Rise in unproven U.S. stem cell clinics worry experts
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to experts, a ...
Have media, scientists overstated what in biology epigenetics can explain?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Epigenetic marks are undoubtedly ...
Mosquito mysteries: Genetics of bite vulnerability
Scientists think there is a genetic component to who gets bitten most, but popular reports ignore a slew of other ...
Loosening regulations on stem cell therapies could hurt and help patients
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On both coasts, campaigns ...
