Prenatal Factors Contribute to the Emergence of Kwashiorkor or Marasmus in Severe Undernutrition: Evidence for the Predictive Adaptation Model By Forrester TE, Badaloo AV, Boyne MS, Osmond C, Thompson D, et al. (2012) PLoS ONE 7(4): e35907....
By Ruslan Medzhitov, David S. Schneider, and Miguel P. Soares Science 24 February 2012: Vol. 335 no. 6071 pp. 936-941 DOI: 10.1126/science.1214935 (not open access) Abstract The immune system protects from infections primarily by detecting and eliminating the...
By Edmund Kenwood LeGrand and Joe Alcock In The Quarterly Review of Biology Vol. 87, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 3-18 (not open access) Abstract The acute-phase response (APR) is a systemic response to severe trauma, infection, and cancer, although many of the numerous...
By David Fournier, Friedrich C. Luft, Michael Bader, Detlev Ganten and Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro In Journal of Molecular Medicine 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s00109-012-0894-z (open access) The renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) is not the sole, but perhaps the most...
Two new journals about evolution and medicine are about to start publishing. The Journal of Evolutionary Medicine, edited by Paul Ewald, is now accepting submissions. More on the other journal, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, when it is ready to accept...
