Worms relieve zoo diarrhea in monkeys

Therapeutic Helminth Infection of Macaques with Idiopathic Chronic Diarrhea Alters the Inflammatory Signature and Mucosal Microbiota of the Colon By Broadhurst, MJ et al. in PLoS Pathogens, Nov 15, 2012  doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003000  (open access) Only 5...

New Evolutionary Medicine Program at UCLA

Daniel T. Blumstein, Ph.D.   &   Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D. are the Co-directors of a new Evolutionary Medicine Program at UCLA.  They have 29 faculty affiliated with the program, and 9 courses.  This Program emerged from their Evolutionary Medicine Month...

The Evolutionary Origins of Mood and its Disorders

Nettle, D., & Bateson, M. (2012). The Evolutionary Origins of Mood and Its Disorders. Current Biology, 22(17), R712-R721. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.020   Abstract: The term ‘mood’ in its scientific usage refers to relatively enduring affective states that arise...

Evolutionary diagnosis method for variants in personal exomes

Kumar, S., Sanderford, M., Gray, V. E., Ye, J., & Liu, L. (2012). . [10.1038/nmeth.2147]. Nat Meth, 9(9), 855-856. (not open access) Abstract: Each human exome contains thousands of nonsynonymous single-nucleotide variants (nSNVs) that have unknown biological...