Club EvMed Posts

Understanding how ​past genetic adaptations shape contemporary human health is a central focus in evolutionary medicine. In this talk, I will present recent research with…

Put the term “evolution” into google image search and most that comes back is a version of the “March of Progress”, an inference of which…

Viruses differ in the number and types of host tissues in which they replicate. Systemically replicating viruses such as measles infect cells and tissues throughout…

Climate change is making extreme weather more extreme, with consequences for infectious disease dynamics. We discuss our efforts to understand the impact of one category…

Peto’s Paradox, the apparent lack of association between body size and cancer prevalence across species – has remained one of the most enchanting, elusive, and…

Probiotics are living microorganisms that are increasingly used as gastrointestinal therapeutics by virtue of their innate or engineered genetic function. Unlike abiotic therapeutics, probiotics can…

We know more about the costs of chronic stress than the benefits of the acute stress response – an adaptive response that buffers organisms from…

Jesse Shapiro and Abu Sayeed describe a nation-wide surveillance program of diarrheal patients of Bangladesh. An exploratory metagenomic analysis of stool samples from cholera patients…

Bringing Up Baby, by Paul Turke, argues that so-called ‘evidence-based medicine’ is limited to the extent that it often ignores half of the scientific method–the…

Biodiversity, human health, and food security can all be impacted by invasive rodents. These negative impacts are particularly seen on islands, where rodent eradications with…