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.
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 ...
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 ...
Does Alzheimer’s genetic test harm more than help?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At the University of ...
Whole exome sequencing to be offered at lowest price yet
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A company formed by ...
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 ...
Is slippery slope argument against human embryo gene editing overblown?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “It is up to ...
Can a brain continue to work after death?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some neuroscientists believe it ...
Open source ‘tree of life’ shows evolution of every species ever
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have released the first ...
Pills with sensors to alert doctors up for government approval
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Getting people to take their ...
Genome sequencing has revolutionized treatment of rare disorders
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The last two years ...
Kidneys lab-grown from stem cells function successfully in animals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists say they are ...
Deeply religious Jimmy Carter embraces cutting edge science in cancer battle
Former President Jimmy Carter is doing what he can to prevent nature from running its malignant course, undergoing immunotherapy, which ...
Does collecting accused felons’ DNA violate constitutional right to privacy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Suffolk District Attorney Daniel ...
GM humans? Genes ‘jump’ naturally between species all the time
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have discovered a ...
UK scientists apply for first-ever human embryo gene editing license
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists in London have ...
Are antibiotics, plight of gut microbes responsible for obesity epidemic?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Eat less, move more ...
Ancient DNA reveals modern humans evolved much earlier than thought
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a remarkable technical ...
Genes, diet, exercise predict risk of vision loss in older women
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers from the University ...
Controversial recommendation: American College of Medical Geneticists warns against Alzheimer gene tests
Citing inconclusive results and lack of medical treatments, the national authority on genetic testing recommends against not to test for ...
Donald Trump’s debunked claim linking autism to vaccinations highlights danger of fad hysterias
Will the Republican frontrunner's comments linking vaccines to autism prompt parents to delay vaccinating their children? ...
How will rise of genetic engineering transform our future?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If the story of ...
First ever petri dish human sperm reportedly grown in France
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Can we really make ...
Evolution of Everything book review: Does Darwinian evolution apply to all of human culture?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Matt Ridley has made ...
Non-medical sex selection enforces gender stereotypes, disregards realities of sex
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Using sex selection to ...
