‘Dr Granville's mummy’ was described to the Royal Society of London in 1825 and was the first ancient Egyptian mummy to be subjected to a scientific autopsy. The remains are those [...]
In today’s MBE, Origins of Human Malaria: Rare Genomic Changes and Full Mitochondrial Genomes Confirm the Relationship of Plasmodium falciparum to Other Mammalian Parasites but Complicate the Origins of Plasmodium vivax (doi:10.1093/molbev/msn069):
Despite substantial work, the phylogeny of malaria parasites remains debated. The matter is complicated by concerns about patterns of evolution [...]
The NY Times has a fascinating article by Alex Kotlowitz on how organisations like CeaseFire are having success at reducing gang violence in Chicago by treating it like a disease:
CeaseFire’s founder, Gary Slutkin, is an epidemiologist and a physician who for 10 years battled infectious diseases in Africa. He says that violence directly [...]
A new Homo erectus find has shown that Tuberculosis is much older than originally thought. Previously, the earliest definite proof of TB’s existence dates to around 18,000 years in fossilised Buffalo, but this new skull shows small lesions that are characteristic of Tb and dates to around 500,000 years ago. This suggests that [...]
