Oncology & Cancer
Study identifies causes of cancer
A team of Yale-led researchers can now quantify the factors causing changes in the DNA that contribute most to cancer growth in tumors of most major tumor types.
Apr 27, 2022
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular Biology and Evolution is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. It publishes work in the intersection of molecular biology and evolutionary biology.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Country
- United Kingdom
- History
- 1984–present
- Website
- http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/
- Impact factor
- 5.51 (2010)
Genetics
Evidence suggests bubonic plague had long-term effect on human immunity genes
Scientists examining the remains of 36 bubonic plague victims from a 16th century mass grave in Germany have found the first evidence that evolutionary adaptive processes, driven by the disease, may have conferred immunity ...
May 6, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
We are mutating SARS-CoV-2, but it is evolving back
Scientists investigating the evolution of the virus that causes COVID-19 say that its mutation seems to be directed by human proteins that degrade it, but natural selection of the virus enables it to bounce back. The findings ...
Jul 22, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers cast doubt on earlier COVID-19 origins study citing dogs as possible hosts
A study published earlier this year claiming the coronavirus may have jumped from dogs to humans is scientifically flawed, offering no direct evidence to support its conclusions, according to a collaborative group of international ...
Jul 14, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study points to evidence of stray dogs as possible origin of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Ever since the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2, scientists have been scrambling to identify the species of origin to understand how the new coronavirus first leapt from its animal hosts to humans, causing the current pandemic ...
Apr 14, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Cold discomfort: Increasing cancer rates and adaptation of living in extreme environments
It is well known that cancer incidence is increasing worldwide, with pockets of human populations and geographical locations seemingly at higher risk than others.
Dec 5, 2017
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Medical research
Exploring the adaptation extremes of human high altitude sickness and fitness
Many research groups have recently explored human adaptation and successfully identified candidate genes to high altitude living among three major far-flung global populations: Tibetans, Ethiopians and Peruvians.
Sep 21, 2017
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Genetics
Estimating Alzheimer's disease causative genes by an evolutionary medicine approach
Alzheimer's disease patients are increasing with the aging of the world's population, becoming a huge health care and social burden. To find the cause of various diseases, in recent years, scientists have focused within the ...
Jun 27, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Why hospital antibiotic management strategies do little to curb resistance
With an alarming growth in antibiotic resistance and doctors increasingly having to resort to last-chance antibiotics to save patients, is there a better way for hospitals to manage antibiotic treatment regimens?
Jan 17, 2017
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Genetics
Could there be a vegetarian gene?
Those who favor a plant-based diet may be hardwired that way.
Apr 8, 2016
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