Frank Ryan's Blog - Posts Tagged "virolution"
Major new title commission
July 2013.
I'm pleased to report that HarperCollins has commissioned a new title that could be seen as a sequel to Virolution. I received very large numbers of communications on the latter, many from scientists in a wide variety of disciplines. The new book is a major commission, in the sense the subject matter is a major one.
I hope to complete in eight months.
3 Jan 2014. I am now well into the book. Meanwhile I've co-authored a new paper with colleagues in Sweden that presents a new methodology for examining the expression of viral genes in human genome as proteins in human cells, tissues and organs.
See: open online access copy here
http://jrs.sagepub.com/content/early/...
Virolution
I'm pleased to report that HarperCollins has commissioned a new title that could be seen as a sequel to Virolution. I received very large numbers of communications on the latter, many from scientists in a wide variety of disciplines. The new book is a major commission, in the sense the subject matter is a major one.
I hope to complete in eight months.
3 Jan 2014. I am now well into the book. Meanwhile I've co-authored a new paper with colleagues in Sweden that presents a new methodology for examining the expression of viral genes in human genome as proteins in human cells, tissues and organs.
See: open online access copy here
http://jrs.sagepub.com/content/early/...
Virolution
The Viruses in You
I've written both popular books and many scientific papers on the contribution of endogenous retroviruses to human evolution. I'm pleased to report a new paper in which I acted as co-author with some leading figures in Sweden who are currently working on the Human Proteome.
More at www.fprbooks.com.
The new paper, which looks at the contribution of viral loci - in other words whole viral genomes that have inserted into and become a working part of the human chromosomes - to human proteins that play a physiological role in many different human tissues. They may also play a role in some important human diseases.
This type of research is relatively new with much that still needs to be carefully evaluated.
I teach this at Sheffield University Medical School and later this year will be giving a plenary lecture and other teaching to biology PhD students for the annual get together of the PhD group of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology.
I don't want to befuddle non-scientific visitors but the paper can be found here:
http://jrs.sagepub.com/content/early/...
Ordinary visitors who want to know more can get in touch with me. Scientific readers will easily get hold of the paper which is freely available on-line. I believe it's important not because of my contribution but because my Swedish colleagues have worked out a new methodology that may change the way we look at certain aspects of the human genome.
I would love to explain further. The importance applies to MS but may apply further. All you have to do is to ask.
Darwin's Blind Spot: Evolution Beyond Natural Selection
Virolution
More at www.fprbooks.com.
The new paper, which looks at the contribution of viral loci - in other words whole viral genomes that have inserted into and become a working part of the human chromosomes - to human proteins that play a physiological role in many different human tissues. They may also play a role in some important human diseases.
This type of research is relatively new with much that still needs to be carefully evaluated.
I teach this at Sheffield University Medical School and later this year will be giving a plenary lecture and other teaching to biology PhD students for the annual get together of the PhD group of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology.
I don't want to befuddle non-scientific visitors but the paper can be found here:
http://jrs.sagepub.com/content/early/...
Ordinary visitors who want to know more can get in touch with me. Scientific readers will easily get hold of the paper which is freely available on-line. I believe it's important not because of my contribution but because my Swedish colleagues have worked out a new methodology that may change the way we look at certain aspects of the human genome.
I would love to explain further. The importance applies to MS but may apply further. All you have to do is to ask.
Darwin's Blind Spot: Evolution Beyond Natural Selection
Virolution
Update on Virolution
I'd like to thank those people who have read this book, and Virus X before it. I'm pleased to report that the central thesis of both books, the concepts of viral symbiosis and its contribution to holobiontic genomic evolution, has been confirmed by some important new research by colleagues in Sweden involved in the prestigious Human Proteome Project. They did me the honour of including me in a keynote paper on the expression of viral genes in multiple human tissues - more at www.fprbooks.com.
I'm also pleased to inform those who might be interested that I am currently writing a sequel to Virolution that will be published reasonably soon by HarperCollins, who published both the previous books.
It's an exciting and stimulating challenge. I shall keep readers informed on Goodreads.
Virolution
I'm also pleased to inform those who might be interested that I am currently writing a sequel to Virolution that will be published reasonably soon by HarperCollins, who published both the previous books.
It's an exciting and stimulating challenge. I shall keep readers informed on Goodreads.
Virolution
