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.
Miss your deceased dog? Pet cloning dips below $100,000
The pet cloning wars have commenced in South Korea, sending the price of cloning your dog or cat spiraling downward....but ...
App store for your DNA could make personal genomics mainstream
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The CEO of the ...
Could 3-D printing technology transform drug industry?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the past decade, ...
Gut microbes may be to blame for autoimmune eye disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gut bacteria may provide ...
Societal challenges in the coming age of gene editing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Because it is so ...
Sociologists proclaim genes do not determine race, ‘misconception’ hurts society
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At the annual meeting ...
Beauty vs. brains: Why certain assets deemed more valuable than others?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Five years ago, sociologist ...
‘Most complete’ model of human brain grown in petri dish
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s a tiny little ...
In ‘NeuroTribes’, full autism spectrum considered in historical terms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Within two generations, the ...
US syn bio corporation diving into GM mosquitoes, pest control research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Oxitec, a University spin-out ...
Robot exoskeletons: Medical applications far ahead of military use
Otherwise non-ambulatory people are learning to use robot exoskeletons to get up from their wheelchairs. Military applications portrayed in science ...
Did pharmaceutical company exploit feminism to get ‘female Viagra’ government approval?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Addyi, a drug that ...
What is war good for? Reproductive success and evolution, according to new research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What motivates war? Ideology ...
Oldest ever human pinky fossil raises new questions about our ancient ancestors
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers say OH 86, ...
FDA approves ‘Viagra for women’ amid questions over safety, efficacy of drug
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Food and Drug ...
How do new genes arise within genome?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genes, like people, have ...
Rising demand for sex selection through IVF poses ethical challenge for fertility clinics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. About one out of ...
Frogs’ genes adapt quickly to chemical threats in environment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Several species of frogs ...
What did man’s best friend look like before wolves appeared?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When it came time ...
Synthetic DNA greatly expanding capability to produce new drugs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the May 15, ...
Promising future of delayed fertility? Don’t count your (frozen) chickens
Affluent women or those willing to take on sizable debt and want to delay having babies can freeze their eggs ...
Is free will an illusion, and how can we tell?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It is perhaps the ...
Skin color didn’t always designate race or ethnicity
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mention the term ‘skin ...
‘NeuroTribes’ explores autism’s history, tumultuous beginnings
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Autism, as the science ...
Fertility clinics give human embryos over to research too, so where’s the outrage?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, my husband and ...
New genetic risk factors for blood cancer identified as powerful diagnostic tool
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Testing for genetic risk ...
Full genome sequencing can reveal secrets in your genes, but do you want to know?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetics has advanced to ...
