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...
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 this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintWhatsAppLinkedInLike this:Like...
