There is a great deal of scientific work on the relationship between states of inflammation in the body – routinely caused by bacterial or viral infection – and the brain. Specifically, the idea that inflammation in the periphery can communicate itself to...
When did tuberculosis arrive as a major lung pathogen of humans? Rebecca Chisholm, James Trauer, Darren Curnoe and Mark Tanaka, all from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, have presented a very nice story purporting to demonstrate how human cultural...
Back in 2011, in the journal Cell, Philip Stephens and a host of colleagues drawn mainly from the University of Cambridge and the Sanger Institute, published a dramatic account of extreme cancer evolution in a paper they titled “Massive Genomic Rearrangement Acquired...
This is a fascinating piece in Physorg about the likelihood that mother’s can transmit genes to their children that harm their sons but not their daughters – thanks to an evolutionary arms race between mitochondrial DNA (only transmitted by females in ova)...
I am acquainted with Steve Jones, professor of zoology at University College, London. He’s a lovely science writer and has talked a lot of sense. But I have never understood why he is so implacably opposed to the idea that Homo sapiens continues to evolve. He...
