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...
Paul Turner is the incoming President of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. Did you ever wonder how he got interested in biology? You can find out in a new interview just published in Current Biology. Just to whet your interest, he...
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...
