• The Mutual Evolution of Dogs and Humans

    Updated: 2013-05-21 16:42:28
    A study by Dr. Chung-I Wu looks at how dogs domesticated and evolved from wolves.

  • LabBook May 17, 2013

    Updated: 2013-05-17 20:30:02
    Angelina Jolie, big data, hypertension and more in this week's LabBook.

  • Collection of 8 articles on evolutionary medicine published in BMC Medicine

    Updated: 2013-05-03 03:33:10
    Home About People add your info Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolution in medical school : Do we need more of it Two new articles in Evolution , Medicine , Public Health Collection of 8 articles on evolutionary medicine published in BMC Medicine May 2nd , 2013 by The Editors Evolutionary Medicine clinical medicine from an evolutionary perspective Martin Brüne and Ze’ev Hochberg A Collection of 8 articles in BMC Medicine open access Developmental heterochrony and the evolution of autistic perception , cognition and behavior Bernard Crespi  BMC Medicine 2013,  11 119 2 May 2013 Evolutionary medicine the quest for a better understanding of health , disease and prevention Martin Brüne , Ze’ev Hochberg  BMC Medicine 2013,  11 116 29

  • Evolution in medical school: Do we need more of it?

    Updated: 2013-05-02 01:52:29
    : Home About People add your info Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolved Genetic Variation as a Guide to the Evolution of Therapy Collection of 8 articles on evolutionary medicine published in BMC Medicine Evolution in medical school : Do we need more of it May 1st , 2013 by The Editors Article in the Boston Globe by  Kevin Hartnett  April 29, 2013 We’re used to controversies around the teaching of evolution but here’s one place you might be surprised to learn Darwinian thinking is still struggling to take hold : medical schools . It’s not that the medical establishment doubts evolution , it’s just that traditionally it hasn’t viewed it as particularly relevant to taking care of patients . Read the original article here  Posted in

  • Evolved Genetic Variation as a Guide to the Evolution of Therapy

    Updated: 2013-04-30 21:04:19
    Home About People add your info Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments UCSF Evolution and Cancer Conference June 12-16 Early registration and abstracts accepted until May 10th Evolution in medical school : Do we need more of it Evolved Genetic Variation as a Guide to the Evolution of Therapy Apr 30th , 2013 by Neil Greenspan In a previous post http : evmedreview.com p=1034 I discussed a study from Stuart Orkin’s lab that illustrated the exploitation of genetic variants that influence a disease-related phenotype to design a possible therapy for a murine version of sickle cell disease . Increased fetal hemoglobin expression had been demonstrated to diminish the severity of sickle cell disease in mice , as is true also in humans . Orkin and

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