Jan 21 deadline for $5,000 Omenn Prize in Evolution & Medicine

The International Society for Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health invites nominations for the Omenn Prize of $5000 to be awarded in March 2015 for the best  article published in 2014 in any scientific journal on a topic related to evolution in the context of...

Jan 8 & 10 deadlines for ISEMPH meeting travel award applications

The International Society for Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health meeting March 19-21 in Arizona has support for student and faculty travel awards, thanks to the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, the Triangle Center for Evolution and Medicine, and donations...

Cancer evolution: selection matters

The below essay by Andriy Marusyk provides a commentary to a recent article by Wong, et al. pertaining to the mechanisms of chemo/radio and therapy induced cancers. Prevailing views explain therapy-induced cancers by postulating induction of new driver mutations. ...

Does antibiotic resistance decrease when antibiotics are stopped?

Just published in Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health Limits to compensatory adaptation and the persistence of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria By Craig MacLean and Tom Vogwill Evol Med Public Health published 21 December 2014, 10.1093/emph/eou032...

Fibrosis: ultimate and proximate causes

By  Victor J. Thannickal, Yong Zhou, Amit Gaggar, Steven R. Duncan J. Clin. Invest. 124(11): 4673-4677 (2014). doi:10.1172/JCI74368. Published in Volume 124, Issue 11 (November 3, 2014) (Not open access) Abstract:  Fibrotic disorders account for an increasing burden...