In a couple of previous posts I wrote about investigators who harnessed concepts derived from the study of evolution to generate therapeutic agents, in one case for a viral infection (2009a) and in another case for cancer (2009b). Below, I discuss a study from 2009...
According to both academic lore and history (Paulos, 1985; Ryerson, 2004), the late Sidney Morgenbesser, a professor of philosophy at Columbia and a renowned conversationalist and wit, was once listening to an Oxford colleague, J. L. Austin, lecturing on the...
I recently saw the movie, “The Blind Side,” based on a book of almost the same name (“The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game”) by author, Michael Lewis. The reference to “evolution” in the book title refers to the adaptations...
Sanitizing the hygiene hypothesis: Health lessons from human co-evolution with microorganisms Report from a Workshop led by Kathleen Barnes, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and Erika von Mutius, Professor of Pediatrics, University Children’s...
It has been roughly fifty years since the humoral immune response was first conceived of as a compelling example of evolution via selection of individual cells on a time scale that is short relative to standard organismal evolution (Talmage, 1957, Burnet, 1957;...
