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- Title
Frontiers in Molecular Evolutionary Medicine.
- Authors
Stearns, Stephen C.
- Abstract
This paper surveys some of the important insights that molecular evolution has contributed to evolutionary medicine; they include phage therapy, cancer biology, helminth manipulation of the host immune system, quality control of gametes, and pathogen outbreaks. Molecular evolution has helped to revolutionize our understanding of cancer, of autoimmune disease, and of the origin, spread, and pathogenesis of emerging diseases, where it has suggested new therapies, illuminated mechanisms, and revealed historical processes: all have practical therapeutic implications. While much has been accomplished, much remains to be done.
- Subjects
PATHOLOGY; HELMINTH hosts; AUTOIMMUNE diseases; GEOGRAPHIC boundaries; BIOLOGY; BACTERIOPHAGES
- Publication
Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2020, Vol 88, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0022-2844
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00239-019-09893-5