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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...

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The 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...

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Eat 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...

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Screw the safety goggles

Raising a glass to self-experimenting scientists...

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À la carte DNA

Harmful bacteria selectively 'eat' DNA to build antibiotic resistance. The discovery could help prevent outbreaks of meningitis ...

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Self-experimenting scientists

From HG Wells’s Invisible Man to Sir Isaac Newton, what motivates scientists to become their own experimental guinea pigs? ...

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Cutting mosquito diseases and more

Themes from the last fortnight have been mosquito diseases, inflammation in disease and graphene ...

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Lake Malaŵi infection spike

Flatworm infection spike around Lake Malaŵi has been linked to manmade environmental changes ...

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Dial ‘M’ for Malaria Elimination

Location data from mobile phone users in Namibia might help control the spread of malaria ...

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Targeting Sex to Stop Malaria in Its Tracks

Liz Zuccala looks at how scientists are looking for drugs to stop sexual development of malaria parasites

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Mathematics And Ebola

Andrew McMahon takes a look at how we can use maths to help fight disease

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Unfolding the truth about prions

Rapidly multiplying misfolded proteins undetected by the human immune system - Sophia Ho explains why prions are important in understanding diseases.

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Marburg & 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...

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HIV 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...

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Leprosy: 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.

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Event 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...

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Changing 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.

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Class of antibodies against dengue fever discovered

Nicole Samuel on new research into the immune response to this haemorrhagic fever

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Cleaning up their act, and keeping swimmers safe

Sarah Gaunt on how we know whether it's safe to go for a swim

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A short history of disease: plagues, poxes and civilisations

Rachel David reviews Sean Martin's 'A Short History of Disease'

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