Back on June 4th I published a post on the Evmedreview which I titled “A new role for an old villain”. In it I documented the recent research by Rob Moir of Harvard University which has shown that beta-amyloid – long accused of causing...
A research group drawn from the University of Chicago and University of Nottingham, UK, has just published a paper on Peto’s Paradox with direct reference to the evolution of large body size in elephants. This link takes you to the abstract where there is a...
A new paper published last week in Nature Medicine shows that the gut microbes present in some one-month old infants predict a three-fold higher risk of developing allergies by age 2 and asthma by age 4, says a press release issued by the University of California in...
Carlo Maley has recently tweeted the arrival of a new paper on measurement of clonal diversity in oesophageal cancer, and the use of such diversity markers in predicting which patients with non-dysplastic Barrett’s Oesophagus will progress to cancer and which will...
Back on May 13th I wrote a post entitled “Evolutionary biology takes a hard look at IVF and human conception”. In it I suggested that aneuploidy – chromosomal abnormality – was in fact normal for human embryos and had evolved as a male strategy...
