A few months ago, the editors of Evmedreview decided to open an Op-Ed feature and asked Joe Alcock if he would kick this new venture off by writing a series of op-ed articles, once a month. Thankfully, Joe agreed and this is the first article of the new Op-Ed feature....
In direct contrast to the previous post, which preaches caution when attributing antagonistic pleiotropy to cases where palpably deleterious genes or gene variants persist despite their obvious dysgenic effects, this paper, in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B, by...
One form of eczema, atopic dermatitis, results in very unpleasant itchy, red, scaly rashes often over large parts of the body. Blistering can occur and splitting of the skin, which can exude and leaves the skin open to infection. The genetic cause of eczema has just...
Dr. Kevin Foster, from the University of Oxford, visited the Center for Evolution and Medicine at Arizona State University last week to talk about competition and sociability among a variety of bacteria, some of which call our guts home. Using humorous descriptions of...
