Aging is associated with a number of chronic diseases – cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and cancer. They are all part of the process of immunosenescence. The chronic inflammation that is a feature of the declining...
Many of you microbiome aficionados out there may already be aware of a very useful online resource for papers and articles about the role of the microbiome in health and disease – it’s called Microbiome Digest – Bik’s Picks. It used to be run exclusively...
There is an excellent review for the second edition of “Principles of Evolutionary Medicine”, (written by Peter Gluckman, Alan Beedle, Tatjana Buklijas, Felicia Low, and Mark Hanson), in the latest Quarterly Review of Biology. It is written by Robert...
I’ve just come across this excellent article in the current issue of PNAS – by science writer Megan Scudellari. The article is liberally sprinkled with quotes from the doyen of the so-called “old friends” hypothesis, Graham Rook of University...
