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.
Proper ethics must be discussed as CRISPR opens new doors
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. People have been prophesying ...
New design allows for portable DNA sequencing biosensors for enhanced disease detection
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An all-UC San Diego ...
Healthy and elderly? Genes for cognitive function matter more than those for longevity
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Most studies about disease ...
Reproducing without males? Bees can do it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The typical story of ...
Evolutionary riddle: Why do women live longer than men?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Women live longer than ...
Eve of Mars colonization: Moon as test base for pregnancy in fractional gravity
Before anyone attempts pregnancy on Mars, we need to be sure if that would work, but recently NASA announced plans ...
Sleep vital for learning, memory and healthy heart-rate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sleep is known to ...
Myriad Genetics refuses to relinquish data despite court ruling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the biggest ...
Harvard scientists discover bacteria that fight malaria
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Harvard scientists have made ...
Stem cell debate at the center of hockey legend Gordie Howe’s last years
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Internationally known as “Mr ...
Gene editing could allow for hunting instinct to be removed from cats
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The days of the ...
Where Clinton and Trump stand on biotechnology and medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Hillary Clinton announced ...
How our brains respond to mass shootings
Hollywood and the US government tend to share unrealistic scenarios for avoiding mass shootings. Neither accounts for how our brains ...
Ethical questions surround China’s plans for full-body transplants
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Six years ago, Wang ...
Do all brains interpret music the same way?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Last night, as I was ...
Your family’s genetic history does not determine your future
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The relationship between DNA ...
Physicists discover new layer of information in DNA’s folded structure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Theoretical physicists have confirmed ...
Harvard scientists use CRISPR to store data in living bacteria cells
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Using the CRISPR gene-editing ...
Janet Jackson pregnant at 50: Should aging moms and dads facing pregnancy worry?
Janet Jackson and her husband are now part of a growing trend of older parents, conventional wisdom says they should ...
Mechanisms behind epigenetics still widely misunderstood
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The scientific community reacted ...
FDA chief promotes new online tool for Precision Medicine Initiative
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Obama administration has ...
CDC forms Zika response teams but expects only scattering of cases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. health officials plan ...
What can skin color tell us about ancestry?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The DNA of all ...
What does synthetic biology have to do with outer space?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I’m starting a project ...
Breakthroughs in growing human tissue create excitement in biotech market
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For decades, scientists and ...
CRISPR may revolutionize disease diagnostics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For what scientists say ...
Gene driving to combat insect-borne diseases: Powerful tool requiring science diplomacy
Gene drives raise ethical and practical concerns. What are the communication challenges? ...
