In this recent (September 28th) paper in Trends in Cancer, Andrii Rozhok and James DeGregori, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, set out to resolve what they see as two crucial limitations of past and current theories of carcinogenesis, which explain...
Kelly Robinson and Julie Dunning Hotopp share a lab in the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, and jointly research the role of bacterial lateral gene transfer in human disease. We’re used to human evolution putting imported viral genes to...
There’s an interesting editorial on autism in PLoS Biology, written by PLoS staffer Liza Gross. She looks at several papers on the possible origins of autism that have come out since the disastrous effect on vaccination caused by the irresponsible publication of...
Back in 1962, James Neel proposed the “thrifty-gene” hypothesis to explain rising epidemics of metabolic syndrome – obesity and its closely associated co-morbidities – throughout the western world. This suggested that, since obesity has a strong genetic...
