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.
American philanthropist Bill Gates announces support for gene drive
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bill Gates says that ...
Scientists can now deliver medicine with DNA ‘cage’ and flash of light
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Getting drugs to go ...
Gene therapy now consistently and effectively treating hemophilia
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bill Maurits has hemophilia ...
Milk from GE goats may provide cheaper, life-saving cancer drugs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The high cost of ...
SynBio tobacco plant that produces vital malaria drug met with skepticism by scientists
A vital—yet hard to manufacture—malaria drug can now be made easily via transgenic tobacco plants, yet many scientists are underwhelmed ...
Analysis finds Neanderthal genome ‘less fit’ than humans, likely contributed to their demise
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Interbreeding with Neanderthals was ...
Scientists discover virus that steals CRISPR machinery from bacteria
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Viruses have often been ...
Can gene therapy really help cure glioblastoma?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Glioblastoma is one of ...
Advancements in genetics usher new age of nanotechnology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. DNA is one of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
