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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Marco Rubio supports research on fetal tissue, just not from abortions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Marco Rubio says while ...
UN Human Rights Council discusses intersex rights, health issues for first time
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The rights of intersex ...
For weight loss, what you eat may matter more than how much
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The most effective way ...
Cancer drug trials lead to discovery of ‘epigenetic survival response’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The natural world has ...
Computers with human-like intelligence put to medical use
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Artificial intelligence (AI) can ...
Daraprim, ‘Pharma bro’ brouhaha highlights ugly side of drug industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. By now, you’ve probably heard of ...
Brain-controlled device allows paralyzed man to move again
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A 26-year-old man who ...
John Hawks, Homo naledi discoverer, discusses whether he’s identified new species
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We’ve gotten lots of ...
Precision medicine–Next new thing or over hyped bust? (Or both?)
Precision medicine struggles to fulfill its promise as a next generation solution to disease prevention ...
Alabama to require teaching ‘controversial’ theory of evolution in schools, with disclaimer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This school year, Alabama ...
Are individuals responsible for their own obesity?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chronic diseases, their origins, ...
You’re constantly enveloped in your own microbial ‘fingerprint’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hygiene obsessives – your ...
What can a tiny worm tell us about human brains?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cornelia Bargmann, a neurobiologist ...
