The new Op-Ed feature started last month with a piece by Joe Alcock, “Disabling the smoke detector in sepsis.” Our hope was that this feature would spark interest and contributions by more authors and so far we are off to a great start. Veterinary...
The many ways our gut microbiome can affect health by suppressing autoimmune and allergic disorders has now pretty much become mainstream science. The exciting developing area is understanding how components of a normal, healthy gut microbiome affect the development...
We’ve posted a number of articles over the years – see here and here – that deal with ways in which evolution can be used to improve malaria eradication. And we’d like to thank Rob Boyd for bringing another story on an evolutionary approach to...
Evolution has shaped human immune systems thanks to genetic adaptation of human populations as humans spread out of Africa and throughout Europe, and thanks to not insignificant amounts of admixture between Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans. This has resulted...
