In previous posts, I discussed, respectively, the use of selection to generate an antibody of potential value in treating influenza A virus infections (1) and the relevance of protein dynamics to the evolution of protein function (2). A recent paper in...
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;...
We usually consider medicine as a predictive scientific endeavor, as methodical in application as noble in purpose. But for some diseases, such as schizophrenia, the first treatments showing any effectiveness, including lithium, chlorpromazine, and even...