A group of researchers discovered an ancient wolf bone and say its DNA suggests dogs diverged from wolves 27,000 to 40,000 years ago – not 11,000 to 16,000 years ago, as previous research has suggested. Pontus Skoglund, research fellow in genetics, is a coauthor of the study.
Jeff Levin-Scherz, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, authored this piece about Medscape’s new annual physician compensation survey.
Boston Children¹s Hospital is extending its reach to patients far outside Boston, with a deal to acquire a large and growing group of doctors in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Kevin Churchwell, Robert and Dana Smith Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, authored this article about the impact of weak or absent health systems and disparities in access to care on Ebola outcomes.
Joanne Wolfe, associate professor of pediatrics at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, authored this opinion piece arguing that supportive care for pediatric oncology is not yet a gold standard, and that other seriously ill children fare even worse.
Scientists have been scouring the world in recent decades for all manner of miracle plants that can help people slim down. But none has been more promising in early studies than a traditional Chinese medicine known as thunder god vine. Umut Ozcan, associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is the senior author of the research.
A buzzworthy biology topic is a revolutionary new method to ‘edit’ DNA that has spread to thousands of labs around the world just in the last couple of years. Suddenly, it¹s no longer purely science fiction that humankind will have the ability to tinker with its own gene pool. But should it? Jeffrey Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University and Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, is quoted. Research by Keith Joung, professor of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is cited.
Exercise may affect how and when we move, even when we aren’t exercising, according to a fascinating new study in mice. Frank A. J. L. Scheer, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, oversaw the study. Kun Hu, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is a study co-author.
