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.
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 ...
Experts reluctant to speak out on ‘hot button’ fetal tissue research
The Planned Parenthood controversy threatens to result in a ban for fetal tissue research. The problem is exacerbated because experts ...
Is looking for intelligence in genes a ‘needle in a haystack?’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With the advent of ...
How do we begin to understand the microbiome?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As soon as we ...
Black Death may have been around long before humans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. About 20 million years ...
California debates fate of DNA samples from felony arrests
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fate of as ...
Some smokers’ lung health protected by lucky set of genes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Tobacco is a known ...
Water on Mars: Implications for possible life must be taken with a grain of salt
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What do Mars, Antarctica, ...
Can patients communicate telepathically while in a coma?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If brain injury steals ...
CRISPR upgrade may make gene editing even simpler
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The CRISPR/Cas9 technique is ...
Santa Cruz biotech company under fire for severe animal mistreatment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A hidden barn. A ...
When did humans evolve to hear speech?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Anthropologists have estimated the ...
Is science being used to justify racist beliefs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, Jennifer Cramblett lost ...
Investigation: Are results of cancer studies reliable?
Why are so many studies not reproducible? The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, an open-source replication project, aims to examine this ...
GMOs essential to life-saving medicines and other uses, even if you don’t want them in food
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMOs in agriculture are ...
Gold particles, Darwinian evolution: Unlikely combination joins to carry out computing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Move over, microchip. A ...
Does oxytocin deserve title of ‘trust hormone?’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The claim that the ...
UN report declares surgeries on intersex babies human rights violation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The United Nations recently convened ...
Genetic testing company under fire over potentially harmful cancer test
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Pathway Genomics, the startup ...
Humans successfully read each other’s thoughts through brain-to-brain connection
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In one lab, an ...
Blood test can prevent suicide? How to prevent “biomarker porn”
Biomarker testing is the shiny new thing. Some scientists claim they can predict complex mental disorders. It would be nice ...
Can drugs that disrupt memory also help people remember?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An influential theory about ...
Lab-grown kidneys function successfully in animal models
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The white whale of ...
‘Sleep hormone’ melatonin may protect against multiple sclerosis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Multiple sclerosis (MS) relapses ...
Precision medicine goes far beyond genetics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When President Obama uttered ...
