2014 is likely to be remembered as the year of Ebola. From the first case in March 2014, we all...
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I remember the first time it happened with painful clarity. The summer sun had burned the Cornish sand a brilliant...
A team at Imperial has discovered a new class of human antibodies against the dengue virus, which could be used...
The last 2.6 million years have seen the breadth of human engineering and invention. From ancient humans using hammerstones to...
As part of our new science events listing, we pick an event coming up this week. Valentine's Day at the...
"When I was in India in November, we went out to a little village health clinic in Rajasthan, and we...
The meetings are presentations of three papers on HIV, selected by the three faculties. Commentaries of these papers and others...
Hans-Dieter Klenk was born in 1938 in Cologne, Germany. From 1985 to 2007 he was Professor of Virology and Head...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Kuru, Fatal Familial Insomnia - in what may seem like a list of ruthless and incurable neurodegenerative diseases...
The Ebola outbreak that began in West Africa in March 2014 tapped into the public imagination across the world as...
Imperial College researchers have developed a sensitive in vitro technique to screen drugs for their ability to block malaria transmission,...
Namibia aims to eradicate malaria by 2020. The country has already reduced its yearly burden of malaria cases from over...
Children play in the water. Their mothers wash clothes, while fishermen cast nets from their boats, but this idyllic scene...
Themes from the last fortnight have been cutting mosquito diseases, the role of inflammation in disease and the graphene gimmick....
What do HG Wells’s Invisible Man, Spider-Man’s foe The Lizard and Sir Isaac Newton all have in common? Despite sounding...
Harmful bacteria selectively 'eat' DNA to build resistance to antibiotics. The discovery could help prevent outbreaks of meningitis and septicaemia by keeping...
You won't be needing these... The mad-scientist stereotype is one of Hollywood’s guilty pleasures. There is the familiar storyline of an...
A Bloody Mary: what more could you want one cold November afternoon? They’re deliciously equipped with tomato juice, a splash...
The UK government has caused controversy in the farming, science and public communities by announcing that the proposed cull of...
I was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, and although I couldn’t wait to leave the place when I headed off to...
“The first death in relation to this outbreak occurred on the sixth of January. The second occurred on the thirteenth...
A new type of vaccine for pneumonia based on genetically engineered bacteria has been developed, and may help in the...
On June 5th, 1981, the Center for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published the first report of...
It's the start of a warm summer’s day in London, and a young man gets into his car to drive...
Predatory bacteria with a taste for Salmonella look to be a promising alternative to antibiotics. Research conducted by a team...
Last week scientists solved the puzzle of the recent E.coli outbreak not by high-tech molecular techniques but by plain old...
Andrew Purcell One of the IPCC’s key predictions for climate change in Europe is that we will experience, on average,...
Forget werewolves, vampires and George Osbornes. The scariest thing in the world isn't out there waiting to get you, it's...
April is not really the correct time of year for the sun to have his hat on with such conviction....
Parasites are amazing. By taking advantage of the efforts of another species, parasites have been able to flourish in countless...
