How In Vitro Stem Cell Evolution Threatens Regenerative Medicine

One of the areas of biomedical research currently drawing a great deal of attention is regenerative medicine. This approach depends on the use of human pluripotent stem cells (hPS) or induced human pluripotent stem cells (hiPS). There are many medically relevant uses...
Unconscious biological roots of xenophobia and anti-immigration

Unconscious biological roots of xenophobia and anti-immigration

Immigration has become one of the most controversial and vitriolic issues of recent times, whether concerning illegal immigration of Mexicans into the US; economic migrants throughout the European Union; or refugees fleeing starvation or draconian political regimes...
Alison Feder wins 2017 Omenn Prize

Alison Feder wins 2017 Omenn Prize

  The International Society for Evolution, Medicine & Public Health has just announced the winner of the 2017 Omenn Prize. It is Alison Feder, and her colleagues, of Stanford University, for their paper in eLife titled “More effective drugs lead to...