A news article in this week’s Nature suggests that it is urgent to determine if very LOW polygenic risk scores for some diseases might be associated with disadvantages. The article reports that three companies now offer pre-implantation genetic testing using...

October 12, 2020 Research on aging has been foundational for evolutionary medicine. A recent article by Maklakov & Chapman in Proceedings B “Evolution of aging as a tangle of trade-offs: Energy versus function” reviews history and progress and offers a new idea....

The recent Boeing 737 Max crashes provide a tragic illustration of how the core principle of evolutionary medicine can be useful for understanding failures of machines as well as bodies. On October 29, 2019 Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes...

Sharon Begley has written a lovely article on Tanzi and Moir’s research on the antimicrobial properties of amyloid beta and the outrageous difficulty they have had getting NIH to fund their work. They noted that study after study has found no benefit from...

The history of medicine is replete with examples of the disasters that result when clinical practice is guided by theory alone. For instance, in the early 20th century sudden infant death was attributed to suffocation caused by an enlarged thymus.1 Thousands of...