COVID-19 is revealing invisible ingredients in our contact networks—breath, touching, and physical surfaces. Understanding these networks is key to assessing how infectious diseases spread and how measures to extinguish ...
Apr 7, 2020
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University of Queensland research shows there is more at play than just a sinking feeling when you stumble during movement or trip in a hole in the ground.
Oct 1, 2019
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By comparing needles and syringes to disease-carrying mosquitoes, an innovative mathematical model of how the Hepatitis C virus spreads is offering scientists new perspectives on how best to prevent its proliferation.
Sep 4, 2019
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Ecologists at the University of Georgia have taken an important step in their efforts to develop an early warning system for infectious disease outbreaks.
Jul 13, 2018
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Researchers have developed a virtual, computerised cell model that is being used to predict the success of treating cancer with an exciting new tumour-heating technology – which uses targeted sound waves to heat and destroy ...
Mar 28, 2018
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How people's social encounters influence the growth of epidemics
Feb 1, 2018
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A team of researchers with Imperial College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital, both in the U.K., has found that monitoring fetal movements in pregnant women can help in detecting fetal musculoskeletal malformations. ...
Daily aspirin use—known to reduce the risk of colon cancer—could also make the disease harder to treat if it does occur, researchers reported Wednesday.
Sep 6, 2017
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Scientists have uncovered how cells are kept in the right place as the body develops, which may shed light on what causes invasive cancer cells to migrate.
Jul 26, 2017
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Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN) is an extremely rare genetic disease with only 73 known patients worldwide. GAN causes a gradual failure of motor neurons that stimulate muscles and eventually failure of sensory neurons. New ...
May 22, 2017
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