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.
Jews are an ancient Middle Eastern ‘tribe’, genes reveal
In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist and professor at ...
Your genes decide how old you get
If your grandparents were able to celebrate their 90th birthday there’s a good chance you might do the same. Our ...
Repairing the heart without using stem cells
When a person suffers a heart attack, scar tissue forms over the damaged areas of the heart, reducing the organ’s ...
Synthetic DNA is tomorrow’s medicine
An international team of researchers has created revolutionary proteins that can copy synthetic genetic material – the so-called XNA (Xeno-Nucleic ...
