Readers of Evmedreview are becoming used to the idea that the bugs you have in your gut can influence the way your brain develops, and can change your behaviour. But several recent papers are implicating the gut microbiome in the development and exacerbation of...
Three interesting papers about the role of the microbiome in human health and disease have floated across my desk this week. The first is from June Round and Jason Kubinak of the University of Utah. (Round has worked on the microbiome and the immune system, in the...
The many ways our gut microbiome can affect health by suppressing autoimmune and allergic disorders has now pretty much become mainstream science. The exciting developing area is understanding how components of a normal, healthy gut microbiome affect the development...
We’ve posted a number of articles over the years – see here and here – that deal with ways in which evolution can be used to improve malaria eradication. And we’d like to thank Rob Boyd for bringing another story on an evolutionary approach to...
Evolution has shaped human immune systems thanks to genetic adaptation of human populations as humans spread out of Africa and throughout Europe, and thanks to not insignificant amounts of admixture between Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans. This has resulted...
