Skip to content
Go Beyond Discovery
Menu
  • Big Ideas
  • About
  • Team
  • News
  • Share Your Story
  • Ask Us
  • Links
  • Blog

Category: pandemics

algorithms / artifical intelligence / Health and Medicine / medications / pandemics

Tool finds existing meds that could fight future pandemics

A new algorithm calculates how to effectively repurpose existing drugs that could be used in future pandemic outbreaks.

earthquakes / machine learning / natural disasters / pandemics / Science and Technology

Can machine learning predict the next big disaster?

Researchers may have a way to forecast hard-to-predict events like earthquakes and pandemics with less data.

bubonic plague / evolution / Featured / genomes / Health and Medicine / pandemics

Bubonic plague affected human immune system evolution

“…the Black Death was an important selective pressure to the evolution of the human immune system.”

bubonic plague / evolution / Featured / genomes / Health and Medicine / pandemics

Bubonic plague affected human immune system evolution

“…the Black Death was an important selective pressure to the evolution of the human immune system.”

COVID-19 / Health and Medicine / pandemics / race and ethnicity / social lives

Future pandemic strategy should consider these factors

Accounting for ethnicity and social factors may improve the strategies public health officials use in future pandemic, researchers report.

epidemics / Featured / Health and Medicine / pandemics / vaccines

Experts: Today’s public health crises are just the beginning

If it seems like public health crises are abounding, you’re not wrong. Two experts answer questions about prevention, preparedness, and social factors.

bats / Health and Medicine / pandemics / viruses

Can bats help prevent the next pandemic?

Bats can teach us a lot about how to manage, and maybe even prevent, future pandemics, researchers say.

COVID-19 / Featured / Health and Medicine / pandemics / viruses

When will you know the pandemic is over?

How will we know when the COVID-19 pandemic is at an end? Will we live with the virus forever? What happens next? Experts have some answers for you.

fears / Health and Medicine / influenza / pandemics / vaccines

Nope, the flu vaccine won’t give you the flu

Don’t believe the myth. “You absolutely cannot get the flu from the standard vaccine shot,” says expert John Quarles.

Recent News

  • Test helps predict who will die without liver transplant
  • Test helps predict who will die without liver transplant
  • Genetics track mining’s threat to endangered chimps
  • Quick finger-prick test spots hidden trich infection
  • Buprenorphine after overdose can save lives

Archives

  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • October 2015
  • April 2015
  • October 2014
  • August 2011
  • November 2009
  • May 2009
Copyright © 2023 Go Beyond Discovery – OnePress theme by FameThemes