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Plant care advice abounds on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube – but not all of it is good. A plant expert debunks four common recommendations.
Following the global spread of COVID, there have been widespread calls for blanket bans on the consumption and trade of wild animals. But such bans may have unintended consequences.
Over 800 sites across the US report coronavirus data from sewage to the CDC. Here’s how this kind of surveillance system works and what it can and can’t tell you.
Normally land-bound pathogens that cause deadly diseases for both humans and animals can cling to microplastics and end up in your seafood.
Some ‘influencers’ are pushing a raw-meat diet. Here’s why you should avoid it.
After a nose swab tests positive for a virus or bacteria, scientists can use the sample’s genetic sequence to figure out where and when the pathogen emerged and how fast it’s changing.
The microbiologist who directs the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University explains all the biosafety precautions in place that help him feel safer in the lab than out.
The research community is taking a closer look at the lab-leak hypothesis for the origin of COVID-19, prompting discussion about the risks and benefits of engineering viruses.
Scientists get up close and personal with deadly pathogens to give doctors the tools they need to treat people sickened by germs. The key is keeping the researchers – and everyone around them – safe.
Viruses want to pass on their genetic material. Recognizing this about SARS-CoV-2 provides insight into how the world is still vulnerable to COVID-19.
Technology is allowing scientists to better understand fungal viruses, with the aim of managing them more effectively.
Technology that can identify stray bits of genetic material in the environment can help scientists monitor human and animal health.
Water at informal settlements, where sanitation and waste management facilities were absent, had high bacteria levels.
Needed: less wild meat in cities, more wildlife experts in public health.
Identifying the emergence of a disease often relies on sick people seeking medical help. Wastewater monitoring can identify pathogens days or weeks earlier.
Victoria currently has three avian influenza outbreaks across six farms. They are being treated as an emergency. Here’s how authorities are responding.
Sewage surveillance is one technique that can alert authorities to the presence of a pathogen in the community. An environmental engineer explains the state of the science when it comes to SARS-CoV-2.
Miniaturized laboratory equipment is making it easier to identify airborne pathogens in the field, but there’s still work ahead to be able to instantly determine if a room is safe or contaminated.
Life in a honey bee hive is all about cooperating for the collective good.
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Professor of Statistics, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, Ecosystem Sciences, CSIRO
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Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Geography and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College., University of Cambridge
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Professor of Immunology, Imperial College London
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
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Virologist, The University of Queensland
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Alborada Lecturer in Epidemiology, University of Cambridge
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Research Fellow in Computational Biology at The Genome Analysis Centre and, John Innes Centre
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Postdoctoral research scientist, Columbia University
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Professor of Archaeology, Durham University
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University of California, Riverside
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Associate Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health, Saint Louis University
