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A man removes pieces of wood from a canoe in Ogoniland, Rivers State

Cholera Outbreaks in Nigeria Are On the Rise

Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi 13/07/2021

Cholera is today mostly confined to developing regions because...

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The Names We Use to Describe Our Diseases – A Story From Colonial India

Sergio Infante 02/08/2020

In the autumn of 1817, a mysterious intestinal disease...

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The World’s Waters Are Rising – but by How Much, and Where?

Sarah Iqbal 13/11/2019

Countries that are more vulnerable to vagaries of the...

An installation depicting chromosomes at the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Paris, December 2015. Credit: Herman Pijpers/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Chromosomes Have A Lot to Talk About – Here’s How They Do it

Nandita Jayaraj 24/04/2016

The two chromosomes of cholera bacteria were shown to...

Viruses are a bigger part of our lives than we think, having infiltrated the DNA of many creatures during their evolution. Credit: slushpup/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

How Viruses Engineer their Way to Bringing Disease, and Also Life

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 26/11/2015

In a manner not too different from societies and...

Scanning electron image of Vibrio cholerae. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Remembering Sambhu Nath De, the Medical Man for the Blue Death

Anirban Mitra 20/11/2015

The scientific genius of Sambhu Nath De was the...