Ebola: Emergence, Epidemic and the Global Response The current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is probably...
Big Data in the UK Biobank: Opportunities and Challenges The UK Biobank allows scientists to access a vault of...
Good, Bad and Ugly: The History of Polio Vaccines Polio killed or crippled millions of people, but successful polio...
Modelling the Spread of Infectious Diseases Mathematics has proved to be of considerable benefit in modelling the...
Return of the Microbes: How infections are once more taking over A number of infectious diseases cause blindness. After decades of...
Public Key Cryptography: Secrecy in Public For centuries massive intellectual effort has gone into methods of...
From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet...
The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, pioneer of vaccination Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner...
Rare and Endangered Languages - 'Why should we protect endangered languages?' Dr Nicholas Ostler argues for the preservation of the world's...