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.
Chemo drug uses cells’ natural defense mechanism to slow cancer growth
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A type of chemotherapy ...
How much access to DNA databases should be shared with public?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After dozens of unsuccessful ...
Want to make money off genome sequencing? There’s an app for that
Helix, a growing DNA sequencing company, moves into direct-to-consumer genetics with a plan for the first genome app store. Will ...
Are all neurodegenerative diseases caused by faulty proteins?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A review published in ...
Heredity increasingly vital for understanding cancer risk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The discovery of the ...
New Sierra Leone Ebola case proves setback in effort to end epidemic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Health experts in Sierra ...
Couple wins ‘wrongful birth’ case after prenatal DNA test missed defects
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a unanimous decision, ...
Was there really an ‘autism epidemic’ in Silicon Valley?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Fifteen years ago, Steve ...
China introduces regulations on stem cell research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chinese stem-cell scientists have ...
Acclaimed neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks dies at 82
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist ...
Designer viruses and precision medicine: New findings for the future of gene therapies
Precision and personalized medicine have at their heart the promise of targeting diseases with specialized therapies specific to certain types ...
Can CRISPR replace conventional methods of biological conservation?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have recognized the ...
Are Europeans genetically predisposed towards empathy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of my interests ...
‘Female viagra’ flibanserin tested for alcohol safety, but almost exclusively in men
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Flibanserin, the drug for ...
Is potential Ohio Down syndrome abortion ban legally, morally justifiable?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Ohio legislature is ...
Which comes first for genetics: Science, or culture?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The last few decades ...
Throat bacteria show possible link between schizophrenia and microbiome
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. No one is quite ...
Are psychology studies reliable? Many science studies not reproducible
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. No one is entirely ...
Computer simulation reveals how cancer cells evolve
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Could Charles Darwin help ...
Views on the biology of race impact public opinion and policy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It has been 15 ...
Could doctors use CRISPR to ‘fix’ broken DNA?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Today, medicine recognizes more ...
Climate change, environmental instability key factors in human evolution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a newly published ...
Jimmy Carter’s cancer revelation: What do you do with a family history of cancer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One look at President ...
Despite what social media’s saying, octupuses are not aliens
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I'm sure you've seen ...
Biohackers have hands on CRISPR, but mostly to make beer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The advent of enzyme ...
Should Australia allow sex selection in IVF?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As part of a ...
Black death plague is back; Correction it never left, thanks to evolution
Yes, the dreaded plague still haunts it. Why? Because as with any species, the bacteria that cause the disease have ...
