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Evolutionary Medicine
Evolutionary Medicine: Evolutionary medicine, sometimes called Darwinian medicine, is the field at the intersection of evolution and medicine. It is the application of modern evolutionary theory to understanding health and disease. Modern medical research and practice have focused on the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying health and disease, while evolutionary medicine focuses on the question of why evolution has shaped these mechanisms in ways that may leave us susceptible to disease. The evolutionary approach has driven important advances in our understanding of cancer, autoimmune disease, and anatomy.
What's Popular in Evolutionary Medicine
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SEP 01, 2024Microbiology
Microbes have been engaged in an arms race with one another that goes back for millennia. While we have been able to rev ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 05, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Scientists are still debating exactly how and where humans fit on the evolutionary tree of great apes. A group of ancien ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 22, 2024Microbiology
Dr. Nicole Foley of Texas A&M and colleagues studied myotis bats to learn more about how their 'nightclubs' promote immu ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 20, 2024Genetics & Genomics
In DNA, retrotransposons can move around and insert themselves into other parts of genomes with a kind of copy and paste ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 17, 2024Microbiology
The human gut microbiome has a huge influence on human health, and impacts us in many different ways. While the composit ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
SEP 01, 2024
Microbiology
Microbes have been engaged in an arms race with one another that goes back for millennia. While we have been able to rev
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 05, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists are still debating exactly how and where humans fit on the evolutionary tree of great apes. A group of ancien
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 22, 2024
Microbiology
Dr. Nicole Foley of Texas A&M and colleagues studied myotis bats to learn more about how their 'nightclubs' promote immu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 20, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
In DNA, retrotransposons can move around and insert themselves into other parts of genomes with a kind of copy and paste
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 17, 2024
Microbiology
The human gut microbiome has a huge influence on human health, and impacts us in many different ways. While the composit
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 12, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have determined that humans probably started practicing agriculture about 10,000 years ago. WIth those change
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 22, 2023
Neuroscience
sleep study shows that reindeer enter slow-wave sleep mode while ruminating, which helps them adapt and survive in tough
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Written By:
Amielle Moreno
NOV 21, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Insulin regulates blood sugar, and it is made by cells in the pancreas called beta cells. Type 1 diabetes arises when so
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 06, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
How did cats evolve into so many different species, like tigers, panthers, and domestic cats? A new study has explored c
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
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OCT 05, 2023 | 1:00 AM
Organoids continue to gain traction in drug discovery efforts as they offer a more biologically relevant disease model than traditional approaches. But they aren't without challenges. Jo...OCT 04, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: October 04, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) The Miro Canvas is a new platform which enables full walkaway automation of complex next generation sequencing (NGS) s...FEB 24, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Cytokine profiling is a valuable tool used in preclinical research for monitoring an immune response and cell signaling pathways dur...NOV 08, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: November 08, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CET) Many enzymes form homomeric complexes comprised of subunits encoded by the same gene. Assembly into homomeric...OCT 21, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Cannabis testing laboratories play a pivotal role in the multidimensional cannabis industry. Production companies to the consumers, whole cannabis community rely on the analytical results pr...Speaker: Niranjan Aryal, PhD
OCT 05, 2023 | 1:00 AM
Organoids continue to gain traction in drug discovery efforts as they offer a more biologically relevant disease model than traditional approaches. But they aren't without challenges. Jo...
OCT 04, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: October 04, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) The Miro Canvas is a new platform which enables full walkaway automation of complex next generation sequencing (NGS) s...
FEB 24, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Cytokine profiling is a valuable tool used in preclinical research for monitoring an immune response and cell signaling pathways dur...
NOV 08, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: November 08, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CET) Many enzymes form homomeric complexes comprised of subunits encoded by the same gene. Assembly into homomeric...
OCT 21, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Cannabis testing laboratories play a pivotal role in the multidimensional cannabis industry. Production companies to the consumers, whole cannabis community rely on the analytical results pr...
Speaker:
Niranjan Aryal, PhD
SEP 10, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Lessons around leveraging high-complexity next-generation sequencing tests for precision infectious disease discovery to guide patient treatment and improve health outcomes. Learning Objecti...
SEP 09, 2020 | 6:00 AM
My group is addressing fundamental questions in evolutionary biology, using both genome- and phenotype-first approaches. A few years ago, we discovered that Arabidopsis thaliana is a great m...
Speaker:
Detlef Weigel, Executive Director
Presented at: Microbiology Week Virtual Event Series 2020
SEP 09, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Traditionally, virology has been focused in studying the pathogenic effect of viruses. In the recent years, however, this perception is changing and viruses are being studied as mutualistic...
SEP 08, 2020 | 11:00 PM
The receptor binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein mediates viral attachment to ACE2 receptor, and is a major determinant of host range and a dominant target of neutraliz...
