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.
How will big data analysis fit into everyday medicine?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the great ...
Overcompensating? Howler monkeys with loudest mating calls have smallest testicles
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Howler monkeys are the ...
Life may have begun on Earth more than 4.1 billion years ago
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2008, a splashy ...
23andMe reports denying police requests to turn over customer DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Private genetics company 23andMe ...
Evidence for inheritance of stress through epigenome found in sperm of mice
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the past several ...
Should egg donation be a free market for donors?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Should a woman who ...
Has FDA approval of 23andMe tests put the personal genetics revolution back on track?
Fresh off FDA approval, 23andMe is selling its direct-to-consumer tests again. What does this mean for personal genetics testing as ...
Were human fists made for fighting?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Human hands evolved, at ...
What’s in your microbiome? This startup wants to know
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Jessica Richman wants your ...
23andMe relaunching health tests with nod from FDA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The genetic testing company 23andMe has ...
Colicins dilemma: Bio-pharmed food-borne illness-fighting drug in anti GMO dungeon
Colicins are a natural antibacterial that could help reduce outbreaks of infectious disease. But they face a lot of opposition ...
New mammogram guidelines point to flaws in breast cancer screening
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
First genome ‘surgery’ performed on DNA’s 3D structure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. American researchers have performed ...
IVF raises risk of ovarian cancer, new study shows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The biggest study ever ...
Genetically engineered ‘muscley’ dogs bred in China
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Two beagle puppies called ...
DNA ‘origami’ helps genes function how they’re supposed to
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The human genome is ...
Confused when you should get a mammogram? Here’s why
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you’re a woman ...
Concern rising over rainforest disease ‘neglected’ by drug companies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I told a story ...
Landmark study favors talk therapy over drugs in schizophrenia treatment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than two million ...
Palestinians, Jews share common genetic lineage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Confronted by the violence ...
More evidence antioxidants can be dangerous, likely raise cancer risk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Antioxidants have been pitched ...
Mysterious DNA in brain unexpected blessing for evolution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mutations can cost an ...
Toddler overcomes odds to survive internal decapitation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Rylea Taylor pulled ...
GM plants can make drugs less costly, more attainable
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The cost of pharmaceuticals ...
Parkinson’s treatment shows promise in early trials
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An expensive cancer drug ...
Can your 23andMe data end up in the FBI’s hands?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. < Back when Ancestry and ...
TNT’s “The Last Ship” shadows Ebolavirus crisis: How realistic is a contagious vaccine?
It’s wildly imaginative and the science breakthroughs and clinical development of a breathable treatment happen all too quickly on the ...
