The USA National Academy of Engineering will sponsor an online forum December 5-6 on Evolutionary and Engineering approaches to Failure Analysis. See below for information and the registration link. Explaining system failures is the focus of enormous efforts in...
A fascinating article in Nature finds positive selection for several alleles that protected against Yersinia pestis during the plague of 1346-1350 in Europe; they also increase the risk of autoimmune disease. Klunk, J., et al. (2022). Evolution of immune genes is...
This delightful Perspective provides an exciting overview of how human innate immunity is based on bacterial systems, pointing to common ancestry, and not to convergent evolution. Wein, T., Sorek, R. Bacterial origins of human cell-autonomous innate immune...
Thanks to Jon Laman for sharing his Glossary of Terms for Evolution and Medicine Now with its own page at The Evolution and Medicine Review! Evolution and Medicine Glossary of Terms Share...
A news article in this week’s Nature suggests that it is urgent to determine if very LOW polygenic risk scores for some diseases might be associated with disadvantages. The article reports that three companies now offer pre-implantation genetic testing using...
