Evolution and Cancer Conference at UCSF June 12-16

From Unicellularity to Multicellularity and Back Again 2nd International Biannual Evolution and Cancer Conference at UCSF Registration now open Keynote talks by Mel Greaves and Anna Barker Foci: cancer suppression in the evolution of multicellularity and applying...

Paleofantasy: New book by Marlene Zuk

Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live By Marlene Zuk  (Norton, 2013) Free sample from NCSE     Review in Salon   Review in the WSJ  Review in Nature From the Norton Website: An exposé of pseudoscientific myths about our...

Weight loss from gastric bypass via changed microbiota?

Conserved Shifts in the Gut Microbiota Due to Gastric Bypass Reduce Host Weight and Adiposity Liou, Alice P., Paziuk, Melissa, Luevano, Jesus-Mario, Machineni, Sriram, Turnbaugh, Peter J., & Kaplan, Lee M. (2013). Science Translational Medicine, 5(178), 178ra141....

Positive selection for alleles that increase inflammation

Common Risk Alleles for Inflammatory Diseases Are Targets of Recent Positive Selection Towfique Raj, Manik Kuchroo, Joseph M. Replogle, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Barbara E. Stranger, Philip L. De Jager The American Journal of Human Genetics – 21 March 2013       Not...

Antibiotic exposure increases risk of inflammatory bowel disease

Antibiotic Exposure and IBD Development Among Children: A Population-Based Cohort Study By Matthew P. Kronman, Theoklis E. Zaoutis, Kevin Haynes, Rui Feng,and Susan E. Coffin Pediatrics 2012; 130:4 e794-e803  Open Access OBJECTIVE: To determine whether childhood...