Rob Dunn
What’s happening to viruses, bacteria and mites that exist in our socially-isolated home islands?
We may feel isolated now, in our homes, or apart in parks, or behind plexiglass shields in stores. But we are ...
Bananas and many staple crops may be doomed to disease if we cannot biodiversify
[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the book "Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want ...
Could drinking alcohol have prevented cholera epidemic?
When microbiologist Janet Guthrie of Inverness, Scotland found a poster from the time of the city's early-1800s cholera outbreak, urging ...
Humans and chimps seen as not as similar as once thought
When geneticist Mary Claire King became the first scientist to compare the genes of chimps and humans in 1975, she was in ...
