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A Rush to Develop ‘Utterly Transformative’ Gene Therapies Against Cancer

Gene therapy for cancer is becoming a reality but works best for blood cancers like leukemia and not so well yet in more common ones like lung cancer.

From the NYTimes News-2017-7-23:20:6:1

New Mexico boy trips over 1.2 million year old fossil

A 10-year-old boy's stumble unearthed a prehistoric skull, which he then got the chance to help excavate.

From the BBC News-2017-7-20:20:6:1

Poaching pushes pangolin closer to extinction

Pangolins in the forests of Africa are at risk of being pushed to extinction like their Asian relatives.

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The Domestic Dog Its Evolution, Behavior and Interactions with People, 2nd edition, Ed J. Serpell from Cambridge Univ Press (Jul 26).

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The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life, edited by R.P.Shefferson, O.R.Jones, and R.Salguero-Gomez from Cambridge Univ Press (Jul 19).

Biological Control, Ecology and Applications, by G.E. Heimpel, N.J. Mills from Cambridge Univ Press (Jul 13).

The Evolution of Human Co-operation, Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies, by C.Stanish from Cambridge Univ Press (Jul 2).

The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics ed. M.Ruse, R.J.Richards, from Cambridge Univ Press (Jun 30).

Biochemical Adaptation Response to Environmental Challenges from Life's Origins to the Anthropocene by G.N. Somero, B.L. Lockwood, and L. Tomanek from Sinauer (Jun 26).

Evolution 4th Ed, by D.J.Futuyma and M.Kirkpatrick, from Oxford Univ Press (Jun 23).

The Evolution Underground by A.J. Martin, from Pegasus Books (Jun 21).

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Jul 27 12:17	Co-opted megasatellite DNA drives evolution of secondary night vision in Azara's owl monkey - Akihiko Koga et al. (GBE)
Jul 27 12:17	Genomic analysis of the evolution of phototrophy among haloalkaliphilic Rhodobacterales - Karel Kopejtka et al. (GBE)
Jul 27 12:17	Co-opted megasatellite DNA drives evolution of secondary night vision in Azara's owl monkey - Akihiko Koga et al. (GBE)
Jul 27 12:00	Isoform Evolution in Primates Through Independent Combination of Alternative RNA Processing Events - Shi-Jian Zhang et al. (MBE)
Jul 26 16:00	Embryo implantation evolved from an ancestral inflammatory attachment reaction - Oliver W. Griffith et al. (PNAS)
Jul 26 12:17	Whole RNA-sequencing and transcriptome assembly of Candida albicans and Candida africana under chlamydospore-inducing conditions - Domenico Giosa et al. (GBE)
Jul 26 12:17	Testing convergent evolution in auditory processing genes between echolocating mammals and the aye-aye, a percussive-foraging primate - Richard J. Bankoff et al. (GBE)
Jul 26 12:17	Whole RNA-sequencing and transcriptome assembly of Candida albicans and Candida africana under chlamydospore-inducing conditions - Domenico Giosa et al. (GBE)
Jul 25 16:00	Artificial Selection Response due to Polygenic Adaptation from a Multilocus, Multiallelic Genetic Architecture - Yanjun Zan et al. (MBE)
Jul 25 08:00	Genetic Basis of Exploiting Ecological Opportunity During the Long-Term Diversification of a Bacterial Population - Jessika Consuegra et al. (JME)
Jul 25 08:00	The Distribution of Miniature Impala Elements and SIX Genes in the Fusarium Genus is Suggestive of Horizontal Gene Transfer - Peter van Dam, Martijn Rep (JME)
Jul 25 08:00	On the Possibility of an Early Evolutionary Origin for the Spliced Leader Trans-Splicing - Zuzana Krchňáková, Juraj Krajčovič, Matej Vesteg (JME)

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Update on discussion meeting:  Conservation of Adaptive Potential and
Functional Diversity

14-15 September 2017, Durham University, UK

Registration open through to the date of the meeting, or until capacity
reached.  https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=761

Abstract registration for talks closed, but now extended for Posters to 1
September, 2017 Please send poster abstracts to: cap.meeting@durham.ac.uk

Invited speaker presentations:

Chris Jiggins (Cambridge, UK):  The origins of diversity in Heliconius
wing patterns: Re-use of ancient variants and its implications for
conservation.

Paul Hohenlohe (Idaho, USA): Evaluating the potential for a genetic
marker panel of susceptibility to Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease.

Victor Soria-Carrasco (Sheffield, UK):  Genome-wide heterozygosity and
fitness in a field experiment with stick-insects.

Simone Sommer (Ulm, Germany): Does low diversity influence MHC immune
gene expression level in endangered wild cheetahs?

Oscar Gaggiotti (St. Andrews, UK):  Understanding associations between
species and genetic diversity requires the use of consistent measures
of biodiversity across levels of organisation.

Barbara Mable (Glasgow, UK): Changing environments and genetic variation:
does inbreeding compromise short-term adaptive potential?

Rasmus Nielsen (Berkeley, USA): Genetic rescue from inbreeding depression
and its evolutionary limits.

Chris Funk (Colorado, USA): Incorporating information on adaptation
into conservation policy: integrating genomics into Endangered Species
Act decisions.

Bob Wayne (Los Angeles, USA): Measuring adaptive and deleterious variation
in threatened populations and its importance for conservation management.

Rob Fleischer (Smithsonian, USA): Genomic and transcriptomic assessments
of host response to invasive pathogens.

Mike Bruford (Cardiff, UK): Population Transcriptomics, demographic
history and high altitude adaptation in a predatory bird.

Violeta Fuentes (EMBL-EBI, UK): The International Mouse Phenotyping
Consortium (IMPC): a functional catalogue of the mammalian genome that
informs conservation.

There will also be a series of shorter talks chosen from among the
submitted abstracts and a poster session.

Meeting sponsored by Springer-Nature and the Genetics Society.

"HOELZEL, RUS A.R." <a.r.hoelzel@durham.ac.uk>

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