Health News from Medical News Today: Better Understanding Of Environmental 'Fitness' Provided By Evolutionary Biologist Which May One Day Help With Chronic Diseases

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Better Understanding Of Environmental 'Fitness' Provided By Evolutionary Biologist Which May One Day Help With Chronic Diseases 3 Jun 2011, 8:00 am Working to better predict general patterns of evolution, a University of Houston (UH) biologist and his team have discovered some surprising things about gene mutations that might one day make it possible to predict the progression of chronic disease. UH evolutionary biologist Timothy Cooper and his colleagues describe their findings in a paper titled "Negative Epistasis Between Beneficial Mutations in an Evolving Bacterial Population." The report appears June 3 in Science, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news and commentary... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.