Infectious Disease

The viruses that buzz around us

Despite some compelling arguments specialists might make for the ecological benefits of mosquitoes, to put it mildly they are generally an unloved species. But far from being a mere nuisance, from a public health perspective the mosquito is considered to be ...

Infectious Disease August 24, 2021

Getting the stains out

For the past century, diagnosing malaria infections in the developing countries where the disease is endemic has been a tedious and imperfect process. Armed with a field backpack, dedicated technicians perform pinpricks on patients and use microscopes to ...

Infectious Disease August 3, 2021

Wild adaptations

We humans are locked in an age-old, unending arms race against disease-causing bacteria, with resistant strains continuing to emerge that can fend off our best antibiotics. But bacteria themselves have waged a long back-and-forth war against the viruses that ...

Infectious Disease July 20, 2021

Science and Public Health in the Post-Pandemic Age

In 2017, acclaimed New York Times journalist Carl Zimmer and CZ Biohub Co-President Joe DeRisi met on stage in San Francisco at the World Conference of Science Journalists for a wide-ranging discussion. In particular, they touched on how genomic technologies ...

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