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.
Viewpoint: In his latest dangerous health action, RFK. Jr. blocks CDC from informing patients about the health benefits of vaccines and instead hyping rare side-effects
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to halt ...
Why do we remember some dreams and not others?
Humans sleep for approximately 230,000 hours over the course of their lives โ thatโs 26 years spent asleep. We primarily ...
Viewpoint: Health disaster aheadโHere is RFK, Jrs.’ 6-point plan to undermine the U.S. vaccination protection network that took decades to construct
[L]wyers, like RFK Jr., tend to approach data and studies very differently than scientists. While scientists test a hypothesis by ...
The anti-vaccination movement claims its first measles victim since 2015โA Texas school child whose parents refused to get vaccinated
An unvaccinated school-aged child has died after testing positive for measles amid an outbreak in west Texas, health officials confirmed ...
Our canine companionsโWhat an adorable amalgamation of recessive genes
Dogs sometimes seem like theyโve been genetically engineered in a lab to be the perfect human companion. Unfortunately, for some ...
In the fight against opioid addiction, a new fentanyl vaccine could be an effective weapon
Can a vaccine be used to treat addiction?ย It sounds perplexing, but this is exactly the question the National Institutes of ...
Is there an evolutionary explanation for humanโs love of music?
In a new study, researchers found universal features of songs across many cultures, suggesting that music evolved in our distant ...
Some abortion servicing doctors blocked in their states to spply their service go on the road
Kylie Cooper has seenย all the ways a pregnancy can go terrifyingly, perilously wrong. She is an obstetrician who manages high-risk ...
What does Deepak Chopra believe about the dangers and benefits of AI
Deepak Chopraย isn't turning his nose up at artificial intelligence ... rather, he's encouraging others to embrace the technology as the ...
CRISPR treatments offer hope for children with rare genetic disorders
Lucy Landman was born with a very rare genetic disorder that causes severe intellectual disability, weak muscles, and seizures, among ...
Can trees help solve AIโs massive power needs?
Power producer Drax is scouting locations in the American pine belt to build electricity generators fueled by burning wood chips ...
Turning the cotton industry sustainable: Using sweat potoato waste
Fabric made from waste potato plants could offer a more sustainable alternative to pure cotton, as pressure grows on the ...
Video: BBC uncovers massive fraud by Britainโs โsocial egg freezingโ clinics
Video: Women who freeze their eggs are being misled by some UK clinics about their chances of having a baby ...
Snopes: How RFK, Jr. and his Childrenโs Health Defense exploited the 2019 Samoan measles epidemic to promote his anti-vaccination crusade
In 2019, Samoa experienced a measles outbreak caused by low vaccination coverage. ย Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointment to be President-elect ...
GLP-1 miracle elixirs? Add reducing cravings for drugs and alcohol to the already long list of health benefits linked to weight loss drugs
Some people who take drugs like Ozempic have noticed a surprising but welcome side effect: They drink less. A paper ...
The US fertility rate continues to fall sharply. Once celebrated, this trend could portend economic disaster. Hereโs why
Humanity has entered a new era of rapid population decline. Globally, the total fertility rate is likely already below replacementโthat ...
Wil IVF soon become a protected right under President Trump’s executive order? Sort of and maybe
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at ensuring โreliable accessโ to in vitro fertilization treatment โ while at the ...
Risky business: How humanโs evolutionary response to danger has left all of us vulnerable
Inย The Gambling Animal: Humanityโs evolutionary winning streak โ and how we risk it all, experimental economists Glenn Harrison and Don ...
Viewpoint: Revisiting first UNESCO director Julian Huxleyโs embrace of eugenics
Julian Sorell Huxley was born inย London in 1887, the eldest son of Julia Arnold, an educator, and Leonard Huxley, ...
Viewpoint: Here is what Trumpโs order banning federal support for transcare gets wrong about the science of gender dysphoria
President Donald Trump's executive order, โProtecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,โ ... promises to protect children from โdestructive and ...
Muskโs brain streaming Neuralink is far from commercialization
[Neuralink] is not yet a commercial product. The current studies are small-scaleโthey are true experiments, explorations of how the device ...
Scientists and ethicists raise eugenic concerns about embryonic gene editing even when it could block diseases
To date, no attempts have been made to predict the consequences of altering specific variants associated with polygenic diseases. In ...
Viewpoint: โBroligarchsโ and the emerging age of tech authoritarianism
Thereโs aย dominantย narrativeย inย the mediaย about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, all ...
Running the modern IVF gauntletโWhen is it time to give up?
That there are so many things that doctors can try now has made [in vitro fertilization] feel somewhat limitless. Andrea ...
‘Digital twins’: 3-D digital organs are poised to revolutionize medical treatments
โDigital twinsโ are the same size and shape as the real thing. They work in the same way. But they ...
Claims of living well past 100 turn out to be mostly bogus
The allure of extreme longevity has beckoned for centuries. Research careers and marketing campaigns have been built on the idea ...
Viewpoint: Courts challenge the contrived but growing relationship between trial lawyers and environmental activists
For a decade now, a brigade of climate zealots, flanked by their legal consiglieres, has been waging a shadow war ...
