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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
