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How can archivists properly preserve computer programs often written specifically to destroy data?
Wastewater treatment systems around the world are hamstrung by outdated tests that don’t identify a growing array of pathogens or identify the sources of pollutants.
Hepatitis A, B, C, D and E are very different viruses. Hepatitis A is genetically closer to the common cold than it is to hepatitis B. Hepatitis C is closer to the virus that causes dengue fever.
Public health experts enlist the molecular biology tools that create genetically modified organisms – as well as the GMOs themselves – in the fight against emerging infectious diseases.
It took a computer to discover the potential threat of a drug-resistant strain of swine flu that was about to spread from New South Wales. So how close did we come to a global pandemic?
Understanding how the flu virus copies itself could open a way to killing it.
The number of new Zika-related microcephaly cases in Brazil is falling. But it’s too early to relax.
Many pet fish end up in ponds, fountains and waterways. But before ditching your goldfish in the park, stop and think about the viruses you could also be releasing.
Humans have a deep history of viral infections, the evidence for which dates back to ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies.
The virus that could cure antibiotic resistant infections.
When it comes to preventing the spread of germs, how you dry your hands can be just as important as how you wash them.
Angola’s yellow fever outbreak has been declared a grade 2 emergency by the World Health Organisation.
How has a retrovirus survived intact within the human genome for millennia, and how has it affected us?
What is the difference between these pathogens, and how dangerous are they?
Bats can carry some of the deadliest diseases known to affect humans and yet they don’t seem to get sick. So what can we learn from a bat’s immune system?
Globalisation has ensured that pandemics are a fact of life, but are we learning from past mistakes?
Satellite imaging can locate mosquito-friendly environments, allowing us to predict the advance of diseases they carry.
New study maps the spread of ‘deformed wing virus’ – and it follows patterns of human trade.
Some have criticised the idea of birth control to counter small heads in babies thought to be linked to Zika virus but it’s an opportunity.
Top contributors
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor Emerita of Biology, Indiana University
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Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Director of Microbiology, University of California, San Diego
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Regents' Professor & Chair, Medical Laboratory Science, Texas State University
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Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, University of Sussex
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Professor of Medicine and Vice President, Research, McMaster University
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital and Consultant Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Virologist, The University of Queensland
