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.
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, ...
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 ...
Myriad Genetics under attack for withholding patients’ genetic data
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetic testing company Myriad ...
Scientists identify genes behind nose shape
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have identified genes ...
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 ...
LSD redux: Psychedelics may help brain functioning
Research on psychoactive drugs like LSD fell out of favor more than 40 years ago. Now, they're back and may ...
Why do some people crave spicy food? It may be in our genes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you’ve ever sat ...
Can gene test determine what training best suits a runner?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For the past few ...
Genetic mutation linked to heart attacks inspires new drugs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Sean Harper took ...
ACLU files complaint against company that withheld genetic information from consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Four people with a ...
Why is there no cure for sickle cell disease?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dr. David Williams very ...
Antibiotic resistant bacteria could kill 10 million every year by 2050
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Under instructions from U.K ...
Florida Keys residents divided over use of biotech mosquitoes in fight against Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A biotech mosquito is ...
We still don’t really know what probiotics do
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Probiotics are having a ...
Massive analysis of genetic data reveals genes behind various traits, diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. To understand the genetic ...
What could scientists do with synthetic human genome?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The recent closed-door meeting about ...
Humans have innate ability to assess probability, but odds are we’re a bit off
Humans have an innate ability to assess probability, as evidenced by a recent study of remote populations in Guatemala, but ...
How should geneticists talk about science to non-scientist friends?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As a geneticist, when ...
Why are black children with autism rarely diagnosed?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For most of the ...
Genetics may contribute to when we lose our virginity, but other factors still dominate
Data now suggest genes involved in puberty and psychological development also affect when we start having sex, but how believable ...
Is Mendelian genetics too outdated for the classroom?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The past year has ...
