Nicole Bender, from the Zurich Institute of Evolution and Medicine, has written the below summary of the November 10 symposium, “The Evolution of Medicine to Evolutionary Medicine” organized at the IRI Life Sciences (Humboldt University), by Detlev Ganten, World...
Three interesting papers about the role of the microbiome in human health and disease have floated across my desk this week. The first is from June Round and Jason Kubinak of the University of Utah. (Round has worked on the microbiome and the immune system, in the...
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...
