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.
Genetic discovery could make more tomatoes taste like heirlooms
Genetic modification of food has happened for thousands of year. Tomatoes would still be the size of your thumb without ...
Newcastle genetic experts develop new test for Noonan Syndrome
GENETIC experts in the North East have developed a pioneering test that will improve the speed of diagnosis for an ...
Stem cells help some ailing Houston Zoo creatures
With two big cats needing attention, surgeon Brian Beale of Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists and stem-cell specialists at InGeneron Inc ...
Europe, a regulatory nightmare for direct-to-consumer genetic testing?
DTC genetic testing comes in many forms, such as carrier tests for genetic disease, ancestry tests, and nutrigenomic tests. At ...
Gene therapy curbs nicotine addiction in mice
Forget patches: gene therapy could suppress cigarette cravings by preventing the brain from receiving nicotine. The treatment is effective in ...
Stem cells injected into mice with muscular dystrophy
For the first time, scientists have turned muscular dystrophy patients' fibroblast cells (common cells found in connective tissue) into stem ...
Advances in genetic testing allow for more personalized medical treatments
"Without question, man's knowledge of man is undergoing the greatest revolution since Leonardo. In many ways personalized medicine is already ...
Stem cells may help reverse diabetes
In a new study, researchers have successfully reversed diabetes in mice using stem cells, thereby paving the way for a ...
Stem cell transplantation into mouse cochlea may impact future hearing loss therapies
Researchers in Japan who evaluated the risks and efficacy of transplanting two varieties of stem cells into mouse cochlea have ...
Transgenic technique ‘eliminates’ a specific neural circuit in brain of primates
In the brains of humans and non-human primates, over 100 billion nerve cells build up complicated neural circuits and produce ...
Owning genes
While the country breathlessly waits for the Supreme Court to decide on Obamacare, there is another court battle to keep ...
Are facial expressions genetic?
“The statistical correlation between the facial expressions of sighted and blind individuals was almost perfect,” Matsumoto said. “This suggests something ...
Growing your own bones
In just a few years, you might be able to grow your own replacement bones from stem cells ...
Harvard Bioscience stem cells in Russian tracheal transplants
(Nasdaq:HBIO), a life sciences tools company, says the first two successful stem cells laryngotracheal transplants have been completed in Russia, ...
Central body to oversee ‘biobanks’ storing human tissue
THE CREATION of a single Government-funded body to oversee the retention of human tissue samples has moved a step closer ...
‘Waking up’ hair follicles could help cure baldness
Experts have found a way of waking the hair follicles to help restore a natural growth ...
Stress blocks gene that guards brain against depression
Chronic stress appears to block a gene that guards against brain atrophy associated with depression, according to a study in ...
Genetic heart diseases may be responsible for unexplained stillbirths
Genetic researchers have made an important step towards resolving the mystery of the causes of intrauterine fetal demise (IUFD), or ...
Bonobo genome completed
In a project led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, an international team of scientists has ...
Spinach ‘reduces epigenetic bowel cancer risk’
Scientists have shown that eating spinach could partially offset the risks of developing the cancers associated with a carcinogen in ...
Fake meat: is science fiction on the verge of becoming fact?
The race to make fake meat just got interesting. Two scientists on opposite sides of the world both claim to ...
Manipulating chromatin loops to regulate genes may offer future treatments for blood diseases
In exploring how proteins interact with crucial DNA sequences to regulate gene activity, researchers have shed light on key biological ...
Some embryonic stem cells more powerful than first believed
Here's a biggie uncovered by scientists led by Samuel L. Pfaff of the Salk Institute: A small number of human ...
Researchers say Parkinson’s cure may lie in the human nose – USA Today
University of Louisville researchers hoping to find a cure for Parkinson's disease have discovered an unlikely potential treatment — stem ...
Genetic control of germination in plant
The tiny seeds of the obligate root parasitic plants of the Orobanchaceae do not germinate unless they detect chemical signals ...
Blood-brain barrier building blocks forged from human stem cells
The blood-brain barrier may be poised to give up some of its secrets as researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
How did species evolve? Giants of genetic theory go mano a mano
A disagreement between the twin giants of genetic theory, Harvard University's Richard Dawkins and EO Wilson of Oxford University, is ...
