Evolutionary Medicine News

“Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.” This page shares up-to-date, cutting edge research related to evolutionary medicine!

[Evolutionary Medicine News @EvolutionaryMD]

Dr. Crespi, of Simon Fraser University (@SFU), applied concepts and tools from evolutionary medicine to understanding the SARS-COV-2 pandemic! Please read more below: https://t.co/cBEX7BuH2J #COVID19 #EvMed #EvolutionaryMedicine

[Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz @GLMhealthtech]

Just out! @GIMJournal comment on Screening Embryos for Polygenic Conditions and Traits (e.g., schizophrenia, height, intelligence). Link Below @ISPGnet @PGCgenetics @BCMEthics @neuroethicsinfo @ELSIhub #ELSI with @ToddLencz @ShaiCarmi @_StaceyPereira

https://t.co/cBSp2NIxGM

[Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine @TriCEM_NC]

Last but certainly not least, our 3rd postdoc talk at next week's #ClubEvMed will be from Angela Garcia of @evmedasu, who'll be discussing height and immune function tradeoffs in a high pathogen population. Tune in Wed 11/4 at 1pm EST! https://t.co/7pFEDV0m4q

[Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine @TriCEM_NC]

The 2nd postdoc talk at the next #ClubEvMed is from Amrita Bhattacharya @amrita2989, who'll discuss patterns of resistance evolution and why antibiotic resistance doesn't undermine treatment in all scenarios. Be sure to tune in on Wed 11/4 at 1pm EST! https://t.co/7pFEDV0m4q

[Henry O'Connell @henrypoconnell]

Great to see Evolutionary Psychiatry on the programme for the upcoming @IrishPsychiatry Winter meeting!
@RandyNesse @RiadhAbed1 #Evolution #Psychiatry #EvolutionaryPsychiatry @rcpsych @ProfPaulGilbert @davidbusspsych @APA @APAPsychiatric @sapinker @TriversRobert @EvolutionaryMD

[Siddhartha Mukherjee @DrSidMukherjee]

The Lasker committee asked me to write a personal and historical perspective on Covid (in lieu if the awards this year)... here it is, in Cell

https://t.co/VNsxn8LMkk

[NEJM @NEJM]

Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? The Editors note that although we came into this crisis with enormous advantages, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent.

[Roxana Daneshjou MD/PhD @RoxanaDaneshjou]

Wow, many @StanfordMed faculty took a stand for science and truth in the battle against #COVID19 misinformation being pushed by Dr. Atlas. These faculty are respected infectious disease doctors, microbiologists, epidemiologists, and more. #MedTwitter

[Amy Boddy @amy_boddy]

Check out our new review on the promise of comparative oncology: https://t.co/4Bcgre1Sso cc: @ace_arizona #evmed #evocancer

[Jake Scott @CancerConnector]

Evolutionary therapy is a new subfield in medicine (distinct from #evomed) that seeks to use our understanding of evolution to enable novel #cancer (& pathogen) therapy. Here we present the first link between #evotherapy and quantum physics. A #thread

https://t.co/8w3h3AliNh

[Andrea Sottoriva @AndreaSottoriva]

Non-COVID19 news. Cancer evolution is unstoppable, but is it predictable? If so, is it controllable? In our latest work by Acar, Nichol et al. we show it is possible to ‘steer’ cancer evolution in a controlled manner to design evolution-aware treatments: https://t.co/WtjZTgQTg3

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

Worth reading the whole thread.

[Mathieu Groussin @mgroussi]

Our new Perspective paper @cellhostmicrobe with @FloMazel & @ejalm is out! We give our take on how cospeciation between gut bacteria and mammals can emerge 1/4 https://t.co/oIa6Uq7qrR

[Evolutionary Medicine News @EvolutionaryMD]

This study provides a mechanistic understanding of the adaptive purpose of IL-6, an interleukin that acts as both a pro-inflammatory cytokine and an anti-inflammatory myokine, as a bona fide stress hormone coordinating systemic immunometabolic reprogramming #EvMed

[Cell @CellCellPress]

Online now! A mechanistic understanding of the #origin and #adaptive function of IL-6 in #acute #stress https://t.co/EIDUvGNIwM

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

"The current pandemic is a stressor of unguessable strength and unknowable consequences: most of us cannot really get our minds around the potential impact"
"#COVID19 is a consequence of human action"
Evolutions’ next major transition, by W Ford Doolittle
https://t.co/6kAHV4eD1d

[Evolutionary Medicine News @EvolutionaryMD]

This great article shows how evolution can shape the use of essential metals by enzymes! Almost half of all enzymes need an essential metal cofactor for catalysis, termed metalloenzymes. Read more here: https://t.co/tQ8EeVEUkz #EvMed @MCB_Illinois @barwinskasendra

[Evolutionary Medicine News @EvolutionaryMD]

This great study used ancestral protein reconstruction and biophysical assays to elucidate the evolutionary origins of vertebrate hemoglobin! Please take some time to read the work below #EvolutionaryMedicine #EvMed

[JoeThornton @JoeThorntonLab]

Our new paper on the evolutionary origins of hemoglobin, out today in @nature. A heroic body of work by @ArvindSPillai1, with indispensable contributions by @KaHochberg, Carlos Cortez, and awesome collaborators in the Storz, Laganowsky, and Benesch labs.
https://t.co/eLdtFnTPxf

[Evolutionary Medicine News @EvolutionaryMD]

@armen___93 Mitigation’s efforts worked and projections went down (far fewer cases than if it naturally ran its course)...now you’re using that as proof that we are overreacting, not proof that mitigation efforts worked.

Why eliminate half of the deaths in your calculation? Rationale?

[Randy Nesse @RandyNesse]

Joe Alcock's https://t.co/6sn2yBUG3r discussion this morning about cytokine storm was superb. Over 100 failed trials of inflammation suppression drugs for sepsis. Evolutionary thinking needed!
A recording of the talk is available.
https://t.co/Mkb6oa1lhd

[Dr. Saskia Popescu @SaskiaPopescu]

One of the most frustrating aspects of the politicization of #COVID19 data and its use to fit reopening agendas, is the impact on trust in public health. Erosion of this trust is dangerous for everyone.