The Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health Foundation invites nominations for the Omenn Prize of $5000 for the best article published in 2015 in any scientific journal on a topic related to evolution in the context of medicine and public health. It will be awarded...
Connecting Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health by Nunn, C.L., I. Wallace, C.M. Beall Evolutionary Anthropology 24: 127-129, 2015. DOI 10.1002/evan.21451 [link] This report on the inaugural meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine...
An article by C.L. Nunn, S.C. Alberts, C.R. McClain, S.R. Meshnick, T.J. Vision, B.M. Wiegmann, & A.G. Rodrigo in BioScience 65(8): 748-749, 2015. doi:10.1093/biosci/biv086 [link] This article highlights the importance of initiatives such as the Triangle Center...
Mel Greaves, The Institute of Cancer Research July 20, 2015, doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-15-0439 Full Text PDF Abstract Our understanding of cancer is being transformed by exploring clonal diversity, drug resistance, and causation within an evolutionary framework. The...
Andrii I. Rozhok and James DeGregori July 21, 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1501713112 Full Text PDF PNAS July 21, 2015 vol. 112 no. 298914-8921 Abstract Our understanding of cancer has greatly advanced since Nordling [Nordling CO (1953) Br J Cancer7(1):68–72] and Armitage...
