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News Release 14-120
How evolutionary principles could help save our world
Battling modern threats to food, land and health with applied evolutionary biology
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In Ethiopia's Merawi province, nine-year-old Emabet is about to receive her measles vaccination. Public vaccination programs often involve conflicts between individual and public good: another factor to consider when implementing applied evolutionary principles.
Credit: Pete Lewis, UK Department for International Development; via Flickr: http://bit.ly/1CWbkAB
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A caterpillar of pink bollworm, a global pest that evolved resistance to a type of genetically modified (GMO) cotton in India, emerges after devouring a boll of cotton. In Arizona, farmers have planted refuges of conventional cotton, along with GMO cotton. This has reduced selection for evolutionary resistance in the pink bollworm.
Credit: Alex Yelich, Department of Entomology, University of Arizona
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, more commonly known as MRSA. It is a bacteria resistant to many antibiotics; in medical facilities, MRSA causes causes life-threatening bloodstream infections and pneumonia. In this image, the MRSA (in yellow), is being ingested by neutrophil (in purplish blue), a type of white blood cell.
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; via Flickr: http://bit.ly/1uoFMzv
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Killer whale, Orcinus orca, viewed by child. Both orcas and humans are slow to evolve.
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A woman cares for her 5-year-old grandson, who has malaria, in a hospital in northwestern Zambia. An upsurge in funding for global health over the past 15 years has brought dramatic declines in deaths and illness from malaria and other diseases of the poor. Countries like Zambia are now trying to preserve those gains while tackling new challenges. See page 1256.
Credit: Copyright AAAS 2014
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