This detailed and interesting review from Mandy Azar needs reading through the MORE link. This thought provoking session on the clinical applications of evolutionary medicine principles began with a case presentation. Dr. Robert Woods presented a case of a woman with...
Thanks to Joe Alcock for this fascinating commentary on Marty Blaser’s plenary lecture. Marty Blaser of NYU delivered the second plenary lecture of the conference, entitled “Human Evolution 201: Our early life microbial metagenome guides...
Thanks to Emerald Snow for this commentary. The one thing that united all the talks in this session: human variation makes everything more complicated! This session opened up with a talk by Grazyna Jasienska on breast cancer prevention. She reviewed the...
Many thanks to Michelle Blyth for this. This popular and fascinating subject was begun by an excellent talk by Dr. Alcock, who explained that perhaps our bacterial buddies aren’t always the friendly organisms we make them out to be. Applying evolutionary...
Commentary on Neil Greenspan’s talk from James McNary. This is a great introduction to the topic of somatic evolution. We should all be familiar with genetic heritability but the expansion of mutant clones within an individual organism’s cell...
