Gates Foundation commits $1.2B to global fight to eradicate polio The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Sunday announced a $1.2 billion commitment to aid an effort to eliminate polio… Read More
Researcher says more coronavirus testing will help manage outbreak, but travel bans? Not so much A fresh analysis of the numbers behind the coronavirus outbreak suggests that it’s reached the point where more intensive testing… Read More
Robot is helping to treat man with coronavirus in special isolation room at hospital north of Seattle The man being treated for what was initially the first known case of coronavirus in the United States is being… Read More
Geek of the Week: Fred Hutch’s Steve Pergam caught a ‘bug’ for infectious diseases and research Although Steve Pergam grew up with parents who were both physicians, he was never pushed to be a doctor as… Read More
Bill Gates casts a wider net, asking blog followers to help in the war against mosquitoes and malaria Bill Gates is once again enlisting the help of his blog followers in his effort to do some philanthropic good.… Read More
How Microsoft’s Project Premonition uses robotic traps to zero in on Zika mosquitoes BOSTON – Microsoft’s robotic mosquito trap is so smart it can tell one insect species from another – and that’s good… Read More
Dengue fever calling: Researchers forecast disease outbreaks with hotline traffic Researchers from the University of Washington and elsewhere say they can forecast the rise and fall of dengue fever outbreaks as much… Read More
