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.
Aromatherapy may benefit anxiety symptoms, influenza
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A wildly underrated member ...
Sanders’s voting record hasn’t been favorable to medical research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary ...
Little-known degenerative disease gradually degrades language skills
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When I first start ...
Your housemate may be altering your immune system
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our veins are swimming ...
What determines baby’s sex? Ancient viral genes may hold answer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's a boy! Or ...
Reflections on Craig Venter’s synbio creation: Life, from scratch
A high profile team creates a bacteria by building its genome block by block, but what's the point? ...
You think “eugenics” is a discredited practice? Think again, it’s back.
Is eugenics a historical evil poised for a comeback? Or is it a noble but oft-abused concept, finally being done ...
How much do genes shape your psychology?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Are poor people poor ...
New brain scanner detects neural magnetic field
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Measuring the activity of ...
Are genetics blocking some from achieving American dream?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Nearly a century after ...
UK setting research focus on child cancer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UK scientists are beginning ...
Proposed fetal stem cell research bans would slow progress against Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A protein that helps ...
One mouse’s brain provided largest neural network yet mapped
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Once upon a time, there ...
For depression, genes not end of story
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genes are not destiny ...
Biotech company promises affordable medical genetic tests
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The cost of genetic ...
Why do we age? Reproduction may hold the answer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Life is destructive. Our ...
Did modern humans drive ancient ‘hobbit’ to extinction?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The extinct human lineage ...
Largest study of transgender teens to assess treatments during puberty
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For transgender children who ...
Proposed US legislation could threaten stem cell therapy safety
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Senators Mark Kirk, Joe ...
Expertise changes how you see things
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. People who are experts ...
To fight cancer, researchers propose amping up body’s immune system
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Within the past decade ...
Electrical shocks to brain boost learning, improve depression symptoms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We might finally be ...
Who owns your DNA?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On February 25, the ...
Gay couple’s custody battle in Thailand raises ethical concerns over surrogacy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A gay couple is going ...
Do chimpanzees have a sense of spirituality?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As the water tumbles ...
Precision medicine for rare cancers could point to effective treatments
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the end, the ...
Canadian company offers free cancer genetic screening: Is it too good to be true?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Free cancer tumour genetic ...
