Tag: disease
A tick detective wants to understand what drives tick abundance
David Allen, Middlebury
The Abstract features interesting research and the people behind it.
David Allen is an assistant professor in biology at Middlebury College who studies...
Bacteria live on our eyeballs — and understanding their role could...
Tony St. Leger, University of Pittsburgh
You may be familiar with the idea that your gut and skin are home to a collection of microbes...
Why it’s so difficult for scientists to predict the next outbreak...
C. Brandon Ogbunu, Brown University; Randall Harp, University of Vermont, and Samuel V. Scarpino, Northeastern University
A two-year-old boy in rural Guinea died of Ebola...
2015, the year the was: health and medicine
Jessie Schanzle, The Conversation
As we eye a brand new year, it’s good to look back and see what stories 2015 brought us. Here is...
Sex education at school means students have sex safer and later
Wendy MacDowall, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lessons at school have become the most common source of information about sexual matters for young...
EXPLORING NATURE
Nearly a third of Pennsylvania gamblers are at risk of problem...
Gillian Russell, Penn State and Glenn Sterner, University of Kentucky
Nearly three times as many Pennsylvania adults gamble online...
