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.
One year after ‘Fearbola’ hysteria, what we’ve learned about dealing with epidemics?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s been a year ...
Homo naledi fossils clue to evolution of tool use, standing upright
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More details have trickled ...
UNESCO bioethics panel calls for moratorium on human genome editing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A UNESCO panel of ...
Understanding how fetal tissue is medically used
The public discussion about abortion and fetal tissue has obscured a discussion of how the tissues are ethically and legally ...
Artificial cells may show how earliest life forms came to be
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have a pretty ...
Simple gene test can fully prevent devastating skin-peeling condition
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It starts with a ...
Gut microbes linked to asthma risk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gut microbiota are everywhere nowadays, ...
Cohanim studies: Understanding the Ethiopian Beta Israel Jewish priesthood tradition
Did the Beta Israel "forget" their ancient tradition of a male-descended Jewish priesthood? ...
Gene therapy for blindness may become first ever approved in US
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What could become the ...
Nobel Prize for medicine tributes nature-based remedies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 2015 Nobel Prize ...
Psychology isn’t the only science with reproducibility problem
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A large collaborative science ...
CRISPR dispute: Who gets patent, and who wins Nobel Prize?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, ...
New test detects all viruses that infect humans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In order for a ...
Direct-to-consumer genetics makes people less sure of what they know about genetics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After reading a comprehensive ...
1000 Genomes Project sets landmark in genetics research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Modern science has a ...
Movie fact check: Could Martian explorer survive radiation?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the newly released ...
Psychological torture of terrorists: Experts followed dubious practices
Criticism of the psychological techniques used to pry information from suspected terrorists and other prisoners has led to a dramatic ...
Pregnancies by womb transplant to begin in UK
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. < Doctors have been granted ...
Each one of our brain neurons has unique genetic lineage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. People talk about an ...
Silicon Valley companies offering breast and ovarian cancer genetic screen benefit
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Visa, along with a ...
Gene therapy offers hope for spinal muscular atrophy cure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I began writing about ...
What’s the next frontier of genome sequencing?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genomics has recently celebrated ...
Genetic counseling essential step in assessing breast cancer risk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Although counseling is widely ...
Improved cancer drug hides out in patient’s own blood cells
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s notoriously difficult to ...
Human diversity, racial identity core revelations of Human Genome Project
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sequencing the human genome ...
Populations in extreme environments show best of what genome has to offer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If I ate an ...
HIV gene therapy in development, with boost from Bill Gates
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a bid to ...
