• 2012 Countdown Clock

    Updated: 2012-06-27 15:28:07
    Home About the 2012 Blog Contact Nuclear NRC FEMA Caring Less About Nuclear Safety June 25, 2012 7:29 am In the USA , nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades , requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending fewer people be evacuated right . away This seems at odds with the recent nuclear disaster in Japan , and the fact that American reactors are getting older and more prone to failure . And suspiciously the changes were made on December 23, when no serious reporting was likely to . occur An AP investigative series in June exposed weaknesses in the U.S . emergency planning program . The stories detailed how many nuclear reactors are now operating beyond their design life under rules that have been

  • Mad As Hell Sends Up 2012ers

    Updated: 2012-06-27 07:04:20
    Home About the 2012 Blog Contact Nuclear NRC FEMA Caring Less About Nuclear Safety June 25, 2012 7:29 am In the USA , nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades , requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending fewer people be evacuated right . away This seems at odds with the recent nuclear disaster in Japan , and the fact that American reactors are getting older and more prone to failure . And suspiciously the changes were made on December 23, when no serious reporting was likely to . occur An AP investigative series in June exposed weaknesses in the U.S . emergency planning program . The stories detailed how many nuclear reactors are now operating beyond their design life under rules that have been

  • Preppers Conference in Sweden

    Updated: 2012-06-26 22:32:00
    Home About the 2012 Blog Contact Nuclear NRC FEMA Caring Less About Nuclear Safety June 25, 2012 7:29 am In the USA , nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades , requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending fewer people be evacuated right . away This seems at odds with the recent nuclear disaster in Japan , and the fact that American reactors are getting older and more prone to failure . And suspiciously the changes were made on December 23, when no serious reporting was likely to . occur An AP investigative series in June exposed weaknesses in the U.S . emergency planning program . The stories detailed how many nuclear reactors are now operating beyond their design life under rules that have been

  • Our Animal Natures –How evolution unites human and veterinary medicicine

    Updated: 2012-06-25 17:30:23
    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Videos from Palo Alto Evolutionary Medicine Conference An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective on Gastrointestinal Health Our Animal Natures How evolution unites human and veterinary medicicine Jun 25th , 2012 by The Editors The below NYTimes essay is by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz , a cardiology professor at U.C.L.A . and Kathryn Bowers , a writer . It is adapted from their forthcoming book Zoobiquity : What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing The book is the first to use an evolutionary perspective to unite animal and human medicine . A webpage devoted to the book is here . Our Animal Natures AS an attending physician at U.C.L.A . I see a wide variety of

  • Videos from Palo Alto Evolutionary Medicine Conference

    Updated: 2012-06-23 20:05:29
    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments A survey on evolution in medical education Our Animal Natures How evolution unites human and veterinary medicicine Videos from Palo Alto Evolutionary Medicine Conference Jun 23rd , 2012 by The Editors Seventeen  videos are now  available on The Palo Alto Institute YouTube Channel from NEW OPPORTUNITIES AT THE INTERSECTION OF EVOLUTION AND MEDICINE : A GATHERING OF SCIENTISTS AND ENTREPRENEURS . The conference was held at Stanford University on May 8th , 2012, and sponsored by Stanford University School of Medicine , Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences , Co-presented by the Palo Alto Institute and The Evolution . Institute The videos include talks by Randolph Nesse

  • A survey on evolution in medical education

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    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Genetic networks , levels of selection , and adaptive evolution Videos from Palo Alto Evolutionary Medicine Conference A survey on evolution in medical education Jun 21st , 2012 by The Editors Invitation to Health Professionals , Faculty , and Students to Participate in a Survey on Evolutionary Biology in Medical Education This survey , organized by Indiana University , is the most extensive to date on the role of evolutionary biology in medical education . It should take less than 15 minutes to complete , and one out of every 250 respondents will be randomly selected to receive a new Apple iPod . Shuffle The aims are to : assess 1 the education in evolutionary biology that current

  • Genetic networks, levels of selection, and adaptive evolution

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    , , Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolutionary dynamics of carcinogenesis and why targeted therapy does not work A survey on evolution in medical education Genetic networks , levels of selection , and adaptive evolution Jun 16th , 2012 by The Editors Between design” and bricolage” : Genetic networks , levels of selection , and adaptive evolution By Adam S . Wilkins Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2007 May 15 104(suppl . 1 8590–8596. doi : 10.1073 pnas.0701044104 open access Abstract : The extent to which developmental constraints” in complex organisms restrict evolutionary directions remains contentious . Yet , other forms of internal constraint , which have received less attention , may also exist . It will be argued

  • Evolutionary dynamics of carcinogenesis and why targeted therapy does not work

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    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Human genomic disease variants : A neutral evolutionary explanation Genetic networks , levels of selection , and adaptive evolution Evolutionary dynamics of carcinogenesis and why targeted therapy does not work Jun 15th , 2012 by The Editors By Robert J . Gillies , Daniel Verduzco Robert A . Gatenby Nature Reviews Cancer doi 10.1038 nrc3298 not open access Abstract : All malignant cancers , whether inherited or sporadic , are fundamentally governed by Darwinian dynamics . The process of carcinogenesis requires genetic instability and highly selective local microenvironments , the combination of which promotes somatic evolution . These microenvironmental forces , specifically hypoxia ,

  • Human genomic disease variants: A neutral evolutionary explanation

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    : Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Andrew Read TedMed talk Evolutionary dynamics of carcinogenesis and why targeted therapy does not work Human genomic disease variants : A neutral evolutionary explanation Jun 15th , 2012 by The Editors By  Dudley JT , Kim Y , Liu L , Markov GJ , Gerold K , Chen R , Butte AJ , Kumar . S In Genome . Res 2012 Jun 4 not open access Abstract : Many perspectives on the role of evolution in human health include non-empirical assumptions concerning the adaptive evolutionary origins of human diseases . Evolutionary analyses of the increasing wealth of clinical and population genomic data have begun to challenge these . presumptions In order to systematically evaluate such claims , the time

  • Andrew Read TedMed talk

    Updated: 2012-06-14 22:19:50
    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Brain evolution and neurocognitive disease linked by genomic instability Human genomic disease variants : A neutral evolutionary explanation Andrew Read TedMed talk Jun 14th , 2012 by The Editors On how using our understanding of natural selection can help to control antibiotic resistance Talk is here : http : www.tedmed.com videos-info name=Andrew_Read_at_TEDMED_2012 q=updated year=all Posted in evolutionary medicine Trackback URI Comments RSS Leave a Reply Name Real Name required Mail hidden required Website optional Notify me of followup comments via e-mail Subscribe via RSS or e-mail Information About Meetings courses People Resources Books Positions Available Syllabi Videos For

  • Brain evolution and neurocognitive disease – linked by genomic instability?

    Updated: 2012-06-14 00:43:00
    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Are humans increasing bacterial evolvability Andrew Read TedMed talk Brain evolution and neurocognitive disease linked by genomic instability Jun 13th , 2012 by The Editors by Felicia Low , Alan Beedle , Tatjana Buklijas Peter Gluckman The Evolution and Medicine Review June 12, 2012 A recent paper published in PLoS Genetics Li et al . 2012 has made intriguing links between the epigenome and genomic structural stability in the human germline , which is suggested to provide at least a partial evolutionary explanation for neurocognitive disorders such as schizophrenia and developmental . delay Although it is known that structural mutability such as that involving insertions and deletions

  • Are humans increasing bacterial evolvability?

    Updated: 2012-06-07 01:31:46
    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments The Focus of Selection , the Locus of Response , and Epigenetic Evasion Brain evolution and neurocognitive disease linked by genomic instability Are humans increasing bacterial evolvability Jun 6th , 2012 by The Editors By Michaal R Gillings and HW Stokes Figure 1 In Trends in Ecology and Evolution Volume 27, Issue 6, June 2012, Pages 346-352 not open access Abstract : Attempts to control bacterial pathogens have led to an increase in antibiotic-resistant cells and the genetic elements that confer resistance phenotypes . These cells and genes are disseminated simultaneously with the original selective agents via human waste streams . This might lead to a second , unintended

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