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.
Bioethical dithering on gene therapy comes at expense of patients’ lives
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Activist Marcy Darnovsky published ...
Is it incorrect to consider brain akin to computer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The human brain contains ...
Oxitec set to expand GM mosquito trials in Brazil
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Oxitec and Piracicaba City ...
Why there is no ‘gay gene,’ and other misconceptions about genetics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetics underpins many of ...
Cell phone radiation study doesn’t prove cancer link
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently the National Toxicology Program ...
Genes of Harambe, gorilla shot at Cincinnati Zoo, stored for research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After shooting dead a ...
What percent coral are you? New research shows genetic overlap with humans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UH Mānoa scientists at ...
First major contract in Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative signed with Mayo Clinic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The first major contract ...
China’s biotech industry growing rapidly, surpassing those of other nations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnology and synthetic biology ...
Real-life ‘X-men’ present surprising genetic anomalies and ‘superhuman’ abilities
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As you watch the X-Men ...
Media hype aside, do cell phones really cause cancer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some bracing headlines have been ...
‘Superbug’ resistant to last-resort antibiotic discovered by chance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The woman harboring E. coli ...
How much is athletic ability influenced by genes?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Take a look around ...
Rise in opioid abuse leads to more newborns experiencing withdrawal symptoms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The scourge of opioid ...
CRISPR co-discoverer Emmanuelle Charpentier furthering advances in gene editing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Emmanuelle Charpentier — one ...
It’s not cancer: Removing cancer label from some conditions may greatly improve care
A common thyroid tumor is reclassified as ‘not cancer.’ Will our growing knowledge cancer genetics lead to more reclassifications? ...
Postpone the Olympics, urge 150 experts on Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than 100 prominent physicians, ...
Olympic gold medalist hesitant to attend Rio training camp due to Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Jessica Ennis-Hill is considering ...
Why did humans evolve intelligence?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Human intelligence is a biological ...
DNA unveils history of African American migration
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The history of African-Americans ...
Biotech company calling for expedited decision on GM mosquito trial in Florida to fight Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The head of a ...
How does CRISPR-Cas9 work?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you haven’t already ...
How effectively could genetic tests prevent disease?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Columbia University professor and ...
Brain scans predict whether brain damaged patients likely to return to consciousness
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A simple measurement using ...
Fruit fly’s enormous sperm appears to defy biology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 1995, Scott Pitnick ...
Researchers track cell development using CRISPR
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Alexander Schier simply wanted ...
Bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotic discovered in US
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For the first time, ...
