Evolutionary Medicine Course by Stephen Stearns now online

45 lectures from the Yale Evolutionary Medicine course taught by Stephen Stearns are now available online, open access on a special You Tube channel. This is a complete course, with high production values,  by a world leader in the field. The lecture...

The Placental Microbiome

The placenta was long thought to be sterile, but a new study finds nucleic acid signatures of multiple species in a pattern similar to that in the oral cavity. K. Aagaard, J. Ma, K. M. Antony, R. Ganu, J. Petrosino, J. Versalovic, The Placenta Harbors a Unique...

Clinical Briefs now online at EMPH Journal

An innovative format, Clinical Briefs cover crucial topics in just a page. They are available as html, or pdf format. All are open access.  See below and here for the first few published. Editorial Gillian Bentley Editorial Full Text (HTML) Full Text (PDF)  ...

Math modeling to improve chemotherapy outcomes

The mathematician versus the malignancy An engaging story about using mathematical models to improve chemotherapy.  By Elie Dolgin Nature Medicine 20, 460–463 (2014) doi:10.1038/nm0514-460 (open access) The way in which people receive cancer therapy is pretty...