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.
The high-risk world of rare genetic diseases
judging from headlines, rare diseases seem like afflictions of the wealthy. But they are widespread and attention is finally drawing ...
Are humans still evolving?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. That human evolution has ...
White House mulling microbiome research initiative?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bacteria and other microbes ...
New study adds steam to chronic fatigue syndrome controversy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The authors of a ...
Unlikely agent for fighting cancer found in herpes virus
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Viruses are usually thought ...
Why have mammograms failed to reduce breast cancer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The whole idea behind ...
23andMe works with FDA, bets on science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Last week, privately held ...
‘Social’ egg freezing raising concerns over women’s health and safety
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Women in their late ...
Should relatives have access to family’s genetic information?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Who has a claim ...
Is less medication key to treating schizophrenia?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to the New ...
Black Death lurked in humans as early as Bronze age
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Black Death notoriously ...
How do astronauts deal with microbes in space?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. State-of-the-art molecular analysis of ...
Adorable reptile helps answer question: How did penises evolve?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sometimes, in science, you ...
Google experimenting with CRISPR, gene drive technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Google is reportedly getting ...
Newly-discovered ‘dark matter’ of genome helps immune system function
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists at the UCLA Eli ...
Can DNA end mystery of Shroud of Turin?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Is it a medieval ...
CRISPR crisis: Is UK researcher’s human embryo gene editing research cause for worry?
A UK researcher has applied for a license to conduct human embryo genome editing research, raising concerns among some that ...
Why are girls with autism constantly misdiagnosed?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It took 10 years, ...
Ancient Alaskan children’s DNA tells story of earliest migration to America
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the Proceedings of ...
Preventable HIV deaths lethal result of science denialism
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. AIDS was a terrifying ...
Man’s unborn twin became genetic father of his child: Here’s how
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How can a man ...
There are no ‘glyphosate soaked’ tampons and they aren’t causing cancer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There's posts circulating around ...
Are cats really as domesticated as we think they are?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At first, the cat ...
Next-generation genome sequencing pushes clinical research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When people talk about ...
‘GMO sapiens’ book explores future of human genetic modification
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I’ve written a new ...
Indigenous peoples seek to become partners, not guinea pigs in genetics research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Akimel O’odham (Pima), ...
Gene therapy for malaria: Benefits far outweigh the risks
There's a new treatment emerging for malaria, a kind of gene therapy that makes the malaria parasite more susceptible to ...
