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.
Renewed interest in claims that multiracial people inherently superior
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2006, author Alon ...
Synthetic biology on a piece of paper: Brighter future for disease diagnostics?
A new technology that allows synthetic gene circuits to be printed on paper could allow us to cheaply and accurately ...
Evidence from French cave suggests Neanderthals more sophisticated than previously believed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In February 1990, thanks ...
Scientists hope largest ever coral gene database can help save ocean ecosystem
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Coral reefs - stunning, ...
Geneticists have plans to build synthetic human genome: Here’s what you need to know
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The biggest beneficiary of ...
FDA pressed by Congressmen to approve controversial Duchenne drug
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As a crucial deadline ...
US considering approval of bacterium to fight Zika-spreading mosquitoes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The United States could ...
Your genes may influence what microbes reside in your gut
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Microbial communities in the ...
Does promise of germline therapy warrant risks?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The genetic engineering of ...
Children of older dads at higher risk for psychiatric disorders: Is mutated sperm to blame?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ever since it was ...
Scientists cut HIV from animal cells using CRISPR gene editing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For the first time ...
Computer algorithm analyzes faces to identify ‘likely’ criminals: Is it racial profiling?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As humans, we're taught ...
Common genetic risk links autism, epilepsy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers observed decades ago ...
Can CRISPR make cheap, GM-based WMDs?
The U.S. Director of National Intelligence for the first time lists a genetics technique as a possible instrument of terrorism, ...
Regulatory mechanisms driving limb formation identified for first time
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Molecular biologists have described for ...
CRISPR fueling rise of genetic engineering ‘biohacker’ labs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. CRISPR is a controversial ...
It’s too early to draw conclusions about how epigenetics affects health
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a recent study, ...
Asymptomatic Zika infections complicate efforts to stop spread
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Zika infection in a ...
Microbiome research needs international database for data storage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a paper published ...
Scientists discover potential solution to antibiotic resistant bacteria
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists at Harvard say ...
Candy-flavored ADHD drug has doctors concerned over potential for abuse
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Adzenys, as the chewable, ...
Understanding IQ: What race horses, Eskimos, NBA centers and you have in common
To understand how individual intelligence forms, we have to know more than just someone's inherited genetic characteristics ...
Why gene editing does not lead to eugenics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This summer brings the ...
Genes may be responsible for chronic pain
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have long thought ...
Does egg freezing industry need to do more to reach out to minority women?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A lot of people ...
Is our understanding of genetics approaching historic turning point?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. JUDY WOODRUFF: It seems ...
Heard of CRISPR gene editing? It can save your life
Science is in the midst of a CRISPR craze as the technology is poised to improve treatment and prevention of ...
