There are two related and interesting articles on cancer evolution in a recent edition of eLife. The first is a commentary by Devon M Fitzgerald and Susan M Rosenberg, of the Baylor College of Medicine, on a paper in the same issue titled “TGF-β reduces DNA...
What factors should we blame most for the continuing pandemic of heart and artery disease throughout the Western world? The argument has endured more twists and turns than California Route 1. For years, the diet cholesterol hypothesis has held sway, with added blame...
This is a heads up for a very useful essay, written by Mel Greaves, for The Darwin Cancer Blog – a blog dedicated to commenting on evolutionary approaches to cancer. In this essay, titled “Ways of Escape”, Greaves draws a number of comparisons...
Further to our feature, a few weeks ago, on the state of health of the amyloid hypothesis – the dominant hypothesis to explain Alzheimer’s disease – comes news of yet another abandoned trial. This time the company is Merck and the drug under test is...
