This position will likely be ideal for someone interested in evolutionary medicine Baylor University is a private Christian university and a nationally ranked research institution, consistently listed with highest honors among The Chronicle of Higher Education’s...
Huijben, S., Chan, B. H., Nelson, W. A., & Read, A. F. (2018). The impact of within-host ecology on the fitness of a drug-resistant parasite. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2018(1), 127-137. Background and objectives: The rate of evolution...
A most intriguing article by Moises Velasquez-Manoff showed up in this week’s NY Times magazine. It starts with the new data showing that meat allergy can be precipitated by a tick bite. Alpha-gal (Galactose-alpha-1,3,-galactose) is present in other...
Amyloid beta is turning out to be an effective antimicrobial not a rouge dangerous byproduct. The slowness to recognize its function illustrates the danger of pursing only proximate explanations without thinking deeply about why selection shaped mechanisms to...
