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.
Fossilized plants from Neanderthals’ teeth contradict accepted theory of their diet
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Neanderthals were ancient, compared ...
With advances in gene editing, CRISPR: How close are we to sci-fi thriller Gattaca?
With recent advances in gene editing, some worry that this could lead society down a path to Gattaca? But is ...
Your body’s ‘biological age’ may show how old your really are
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The idea that time ...
‘Mosaic’ embryos raise ethical concerns over IVF
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The couple wanted a ...
Cancer research not exempt from science’s reproducibility problem
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. government spends ...
Late bloomer? Genes can predict when you lost your virginity, new study finds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As many a pining ...
Families suing sperm bank over use of mentally ill felon’s sperm
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A man billed as ...
Zika virus’s rapid 70-year evolution may have given rise to current outbreak
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Comparing the sequences of ...
Dinosaurs already in decline when catastrophic asteroid hit
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Around 66 million years ...
Do ‘genetic superheroes’ exist? Or did media overhype Resilience Project?
A study claimed to identify 13 'genetic superheroes.' The media hyped it, claiming these 'resilient' individuals may hold the key ...
Artificial intelligence proves its use in cancer diagnosis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Identifying cancer based on ...
Is CRISPR patent dispute hurting scientific progress?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an extraordinary dispute ...
Genetically engineered animals can help save species, but environmental concerns abound
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnologists have engineered the mosquito ...
Autistic people have lower cancer risk, but more cancer gene mutations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The conclusion of a ...
Drugs for your microbiome may be coming soon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Those drugs in your ...
Will DNA become new storage medium for digital data?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. To most of us, ...
What is consciousness? LSD might help unlock answer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Almost three-quarters of a ...
Why do we laugh?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Laughter plays a crucial ...
Whole genome sequencing could have huge impact on medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. "It sounds kind of ...
What the #%!*& ? Pain—It’s all in your head, but your emotions can control it
It really is true that pain is 'all in your head’. That understanding is part of a new wave of ...
Largest ever bioimaging study underway in UK
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The largest ever health ...
Can money cure cancer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Tech entrepreneur Sean Parker ...
Conservationists employ electronic eggs to save vultures
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The vultures of Britain’s International ...
Genes contribute to political views, but they don’t tell whole story
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists and laypeople alike ...
What the #%!*& ? Pain—It’s all in your head, but your emotions can control it
It really is true that pain is 'all in your head’. That understanding is part of a new wave of ...
Biotech company shooting to cure rare diseases with CRISPR goes public
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Intellia Therapeutics, a biotech ...
To stop cancer, scientists seek to understand how tumors evolve
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. About six years ago, ...
