In this recent (September 28th) paper in Trends in Cancer, Andrii Rozhok and James DeGregori, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, set out to resolve what they see as two crucial limitations of past and current theories of carcinogenesis, which explain...
A free live webcast of “Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health,” will be streamed from 1:00 to 5:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time on Friday October 14. The symposium is co-sponsored by CARTA and The ASU Center for Evolution & Medicine, and organized by...
A few months ago, the editors of Evmedreview decided to open an Op-Ed feature and asked Joe Alcock if he would kick this new venture off by writing a series of op-ed articles, once a month. Thankfully, Joe agreed and this is the first article of the new Op-Ed feature....
In direct contrast to the previous post, which preaches caution when attributing antagonistic pleiotropy to cases where palpably deleterious genes or gene variants persist despite their obvious dysgenic effects, this paper, in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B, by...
Dr. Kevin Foster, from the University of Oxford, visited the Center for Evolution and Medicine at Arizona State University last week to talk about competition and sociability among a variety of bacteria, some of which call our guts home. Using humorous descriptions of...
