[http://youtu.be/Gy42CoyqKjE] (YouTube link)Researchers from University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health) Medical School observed how viruses infect cells and mad...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/11/How-a-Virus-Infects-a-Cell/
Fifty years ago, Dr. Michael Alpers went to Papua... ...p devoting his life to solving the mystery of the disease . Today, the decades of research by many scientist... ...ouple of years later, field surveys confirmed the disease had died out in children younger than 10 —... ...ything fitted. Why did wom...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/24/The-Last-Laughing-Death/
Bees have an impressive sense of smell and New... ...erculosis by the faint floral odor victims of the disease develop. “When we tested them with the tubercu... ...are training bees to associate the smell of the disease with a sweet treat and to stick out their tongues...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/23/honeybees-trained-to-smell-tb/
Bill Gates is only 56 years old, but he stepped down as the CEO of Microsoft a decade ago. He'd still be the richest man in America if he and his wife Melinda hadn't been so busy giving money away. And instead of just do...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/07/bill-gates-changes-the-world-again/
In 1983, more than 10,000 transfusion recipients w... ...O report looked at data regarding HIV and related diseases and "additional infectious agents" in the donor p... ...verall population. What SaBTO found is that these diseases can be reliably screened for at the time of donat... ...between nine days and 1...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/19/banning-blood-donations-from-gay-men/
If you grew up playing the game Oregon Trail,... ...the measles. Hey, at least you learned about the diseases , right? Mental_floss takes a look at how bad thos... ...right? Mental_floss takes a look at how bad those diseases really were at the time the West was being settle...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/14/oregon-trail-diseases-where-are-they-now/
Smallpox was the first disease to be declared completely eradicated. Last year,... ...nd other cloven-hoofed animals, became the second disease completely wiped from the earth by human interven... ...of “big animal” veterinarians, who fought the disease in remote and somet...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/how-to-wipe-out-a-disease/
Scientists and health officials are pretty certain... ...ussia. The World Health Organization declared the disease eradicated in 1979, and the two remaining supplie... ...h officials are divided on how to ensure that the disease stays eradicated. Some say our best bet is to kee...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/is-it-time-to-destroy-the-last-smallpox-stores/
Every day, scientists are striving to make our liv... ...made the mistaken conclusion that this meant the disease was not contagious. The fact that he never caught... ...not contagious. The fact that he never caught the disease after constant exposure to patients with the mala... ...alady further inspired him...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/23/5-science-experiments-gone-wrong/
Pandemic takes the idea of audience participat... ...overy Channel show that creates the scenario of a disease pandemic and we watch to see how isolated partici...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/pandemic/
