Poor risk communication is tree-mendously worrying
I was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, and although I couldn’t wait to leave the place when I headed off to University, I have since come to love it in its own way. While Ipswich itself is a fairly bland...
View ArticleThe Badger Cull
The UK government has caused controversy in the farming, science and public communities by announcing that the proposed cull of badgers in the UK will be postponed until the summer of 2013. Badger...
View ArticleEat Your Heart Out
A Bloody Mary: what more could you want one cold November afternoon? They’re deliciously equipped with tomato juice, a splash of Tabasco and vodka; but at St Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum there was a...
View ArticleÀ la carte DNA
Harmful bacteria selectively 'eat' DNA to build antibiotic resistance. The discovery could help prevent outbreaks of meningitis ...
View ArticleSelf-experimenting scientists
From HG Wells’s Invisible Man to Sir Isaac Newton, what motivates scientists to become their own experimental guinea pigs? ...
View ArticleCutting mosquito diseases and more
Themes from the last fortnight have been mosquito diseases, inflammation in disease and graphene ...
View ArticleLake Malaŵi infection spike
Flatworm infection spike around Lake Malaŵi has been linked to manmade environmental changes ...
View ArticleDial ‘M’ for Malaria Elimination
Location data from mobile phone users in Namibia might help control the spread of malaria ...
View ArticleTargeting Sex to Stop Malaria in Its Tracks
Liz Zuccala looks at how scientists are looking for drugs to stop sexual development of malaria parasites
View ArticleMathematics And Ebola
Andrew McMahon takes a look at how we can use maths to help fight disease
View ArticleUnfolding the truth about prions
Rapidly multiplying misfolded proteins undetected by the human immune system - Sophia Ho explains why prions are important in understanding diseases.
View ArticleMarburg & Ebola Viruses Old and New
Hans-Dieter Klenk was born in 1938 in Cologne, Germany. From 1985 to 2007 he was Professor of Virology and Head of the Department of Virology of the University of Marburg where he is now Professor...
View ArticleHIV This Month – January
The meetings are presentations of three papers on HIV, selected by the three faculties. Commentaries of these papers and others (about 15 in total) are published each month in the HIV Digest which the...
View ArticleLeprosy: Is this really the ‘final push’?
Leprosy was once thought to be on the verge of elimination. Neil Stoker talks to Professor Diana Lockwood about what went wrong.
View ArticleEvent of the week: A Night with Venus – A Lifetime on Mercury
As part of our new science events listing, we pick an event coming up this week. Valentine's Day at the The Old Operating Theatre Museum is looking at some of the consequences of love in the 18th...
View ArticleChanging ourselves
From hammerstones to biotechnology: Lizzie Norris looks at the engineering that has helped us to increase our lifespan and improve our quality of life.
View ArticleClass of antibodies against dengue fever discovered
Nicole Samuel on new research into the immune response to this haemorrhagic fever
View ArticleCleaning up their act, and keeping swimmers safe
Sarah Gaunt on how we know whether it's safe to go for a swim
View ArticleA short history of disease: plagues, poxes and civilisations
Rachel David reviews Sean Martin's 'A Short History of Disease'
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