• Evolution and medicine in undergraduate education: a prescription for all biology students.

    Updated: 2012-02-07 23:12:25
    : . Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolutionary explanation for IL6 mediated inflammatory disease Evolution and medicine in undergraduate education : a prescription for all biology . students Feb 7th , 2012 by The Editors Evolution and medicine in undergraduate education : a prescription for all biology . students By Antolin , M.F . K.P . Jenkins , C.T . Bergstrom , B.J . Crespi , S . De , A . Hancock , K.A . Hanley , T.R . Meagher , A . Moreno-Estrada , R.M . Nesse , G.S . Omenn , S.C . Stearns . 2012.   Evolution doi:10.1111 j.1558-5646.2011.01552.x The interface between evolutionary biology and the biomedical sciences promises to advance understanding of the origins of genetic and infectious diseases in humans ,

  • Evolution and the Unraveling of DNA

    Updated: 2012-02-07 15:25:47
    By Rob Mitchum In cells, DNA doesn’t often hang out in the long, stretched-out strings you see in science textbooks. Most of the time, it is stored tight in a package called a nucleosome, wound like a ball of yarn around a protein called chromatin. In order for a gene to be “activated,” the stretch of [...]

  • Two articles on Evolution and Cancer

    Updated: 2012-01-22 13:27:25
    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Hitchhiking effect of a beneficial mutation Of Sickle Cells , Cytoskeletons , Cell Surfaces , and Selection Two articles on Evolution and Cancer Jan 22nd , 2012 by The Editors Clonal evolution in cancer Mel Greaves Carlo C . Maley Nature 481, 306–313 19 January 2012 doi:10.1038 nature10762 Abstract Cancers evolve by a reiterative process of clonal , expansion genetic diversification and clonal selection within the adaptive landscapes of tissue ecosystems . The dynamics are complex , with highly variable patterns of genetic diversity and resulting clonal architecture . Therapeutic intervention may destroy cancer clones and erode their habitats , but it can also inadvertently provide a

  • Special Issue on Evolution and Medicine

    Updated: 2012-01-17 13:40:22
    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolutionary Biology and Drug Development Hitchhiking effect of a beneficial mutation Special Issue on Evolution and Medicine Jan 17th , 2012 by The Editors The December 2011 Evolution Education and Outreach is a Special Issue devoted to Evolution and Medicine , edited by Kristin Jenkins and Micheal Antolin . A link to the special issue is here Some articles are available on the author’s personal . websites Evolution : Education and Outreach Volume 4 Number 4 Dec 2011 Guest Editors : Kristin Jenkins and Michael F Antolin Editorial by Niles Eldredge and Gregory Eldredge Evolution and Medicine by Kristin P . Jenkins and Michael F . Antolin Diagnosis : Evolution by Thomas R . Meagher

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