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.
Cheating prairie voles provide genetic clues to human adultery
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Prairie voles are meant ...
CRISPR lets scientists rewrite organisms’ body plan
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The simplicity of CRISPR-Cas9 ...
Microbe ‘kill switch’ developed for safer use of engineered bacteria
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Many research teams are ...
Government oversight permits illegal surrogacy, payment for egg donations in Canada
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On December 3 the ...
Taking antidepressants while pregnant linked to autism risk, but many scientists doubtful
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. No one really knows ...
Secret to living past 90 mostly in good genes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mary Harada’s father lived ...
Can economic theory help us understand our gut microbiome?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Turns out microbial communities ...
Unproven, dangerous cancer medicine got go-ahead from FDA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Walking the beaches around ...
Scientists, ethicists debate search for genes for intelligence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some people are taller ...
Closer regulations needed on antipsychotic prescriptions for toddlers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Andrew Rios’s seizures began ...
Martin Shkreli in news again for price hike for Chagas drug
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Martin Shkreli, a man ...
Scientists working towards developing universal flu vaccine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Designing a flu vaccine ...
Risk for smoking addiction may be coded in genome
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new study finds ...
Athletic fitness mostly in your genes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you’re not seeing ...
Why humans uniquely live long enough to become grandparents
The Grandma Hypothesis suggests that humans were evolutionarily successful because older females helped their daughters raise children. But living beyond ...
Before autism diagnoses, patients poorly treated and institutionalized
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.For these reasons, what autism ...
Optogenetics brain studies may reveal unintended results, complicate research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the tightly woven ...
Evolution of grandparents may explain genes that protect against dementia
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Survival of the fittest” ...
Scientists can engineer mosquitoes to render them sterile, crashing malaria carrying population
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. And now there are ...
White privilege? Will Western activists block CRISPR solution to protecting millions of Africans against malaria?
Scientists now have the ability to eradicate one the world's most deadly diseases--malaria, which kills as many as 2.7 million ...
Do commercial interests detract from important issues in medical research?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We may owe the ...
Gene editing regulations can’t be decided by scientists alone
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An international summit on ...
African sleeping sickness may be treated with epigenetic modification
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Parasitic infections are particularly ...
Will human genome editing beckon a new eugenics movement?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The technology is called ...
DIY gene editing at home? ‘Farma’ kits can produce home-brewed pharmaceuticals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. MIT Media Lab graduate Will ...
First ever IVF-born puppies hopeful sign for endangered species
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The world's first IVF ...
Cancer treatment guidelines limit use of unorthodox cures, hinder medical progress
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Vince DeVita served as ...
