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.
Scientists working on “undo button” if genome modifications go awry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Eradicating malaria and dengue ...
No US registry of egg and sperm donor births exists
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 1988 the Office ...
Your brain has its own unique ‘fingerprint’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Each person is unique ...
What to do when gene test for breast cancer risk comes back uncertain?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2013, U.S. actress ...
How much can a gene test really tell you about your health?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the past few ...
Despite what you may have read, there’s no ‘gay gene’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists presenting at the ...
Birth month predicts dementia risk later in life
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The month of your ...
Will chronic fatigue syndrome receive attention it deserves?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This past July, Brian ...
Wildlife flourishes in irradiated, human-free Chernobyl zone
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The sound was like ...
Jennifer Douda’s CRISPR lab strikes gene data sharing deal with DuPont
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Caribou, the genome engineering ...
Computer-modeled rat brain reignites Human Brain Project debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An international group of ...
Humans migrated back to Africa after leaving, fossil record shows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s amazing what you ...
Migraines may come down to one neurotransmitter
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Blocking a single neurotransmitter ...
Nobel-winning drugs only part of solution for elephantiasis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the 1970s, William ...
Elephants’ remarkable longevity hints at mechanisms for cancer resistance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 1977, a University ...
Gay men’s DNA reveals genetics and environment shape sexual orientation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For men, new research ...
DNA repair award highlights critical disease research
When DNA has been damaged, repair mechanisms can begin which help to ameliorate the damage ...
World needs international agreement on genome editing regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The ability to edit a ...
Mental illness: Genes form underlying basis, but the environment dictates who actually becomes ill
Figuring out the relative contributions of genetics to mental illness could go a long way to devising counseling, screening and ...
Chemistry Nobel awarded for DNA self-repair mechanisms discovery
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 2015 Nobel Prize ...
Women at higher risk for insomnia, thanks to genetics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Women are known to ...
23andMe granted government approval for a direct-to-consumer Bloome syndrome genome test
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A recent FDA decision ...
Australian woman wins legal battle against US biotech company’s BRCA genes patent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Queensland cancer survivor Yvonne ...
Stomach bug just a few small mutations away from Black Plague
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Each year, 4 million ...
Pig organs may soon be suitable for human transplant, thanks to CRISPR
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For decades, scientists and ...
Epigenetics: Why there’s no such thing as a ‘perfect’ human body
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Epigenetics is a burgeoning ...
UK womb transplants met with ethical concerns
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ten women in the ...
