Emma Lisle reviews Song of Contagion, a musical performance about attitudes towards infectious diseases, and the lives of people affected by them.

Rachel David reviews Sean Martin’s ‘A Short History of Disease’

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

Ureaplasma, normally a resident of the urinary tract, has been discovered to be causing devastating problems for some organ transplant patients

Nicole Samuel discusses genetic trade-offs and where modern diseases come from

New data from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute elucidates key mutations which allow the malaria parasite to develop resistance to the first line anti-malarial drug

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

Sophia Ho reveals the real impacts of gluten intolerance

Isobel Sims asks how has Ebola spread to humans in the first place?

Dr Hotez charts the neglected tropical diseases that need new treatments …

Everyone can—and should—learn to deal with risk and uncertainty for themselves says Gerg Gigerenzer …

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

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

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

From the last two weeks we’ve got the good, the bad and the fungi, the commerce of biodiversity and life as a commonplace …

What would it be like to live your entire life without feeling fear? It’s not all plain sailing …

Pests moving North, Phosphorus levels no barrier to early life on Mars and Pacific Ocean is temporarily cooling the Earth’s surface …

Leaving behind expensive equipment and industrial laboratories, Do-It-Yourself science can do just as much to help developing nations …

On June 5th, 1981, the Center for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published the first report of AIDS. Entitled ‘5 cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP)’, it included case studies of five previously healthy young men, all homosexuals, who had been treated for PCP, a lung condition normally seen only in severely […]

  If you own cows, don’t feed them mouldy beet silage – it could be their last meal. Experts were called to a farm in Belgium recently to investigate why cattle were refusing their food and dying.  They found that mould on the cows’ feed contained a powerful neurotoxin. It’s the first observed link between ingestion […]

One of the IPCC’s key predictions for climate change in Europe is that we will experience, on average, milder winters. One of the problems warmer winters could cause is a significant rise in tick population numbers. Whilst this isn’t a problem we tend to hear too much about here in the UK, the prospect of […]