Posts in: disease
Q&A: The globalization of infectious disease
Science writer David Quammen talks about his new book “Spillover”
The smokeless stove
A partnership between academics and designers in New York City has produced a stove that could reduce child deaths in Africa
Coffee – a cause for concern or a cure?
With 1.6 million new cases of type two diabetes each year, how much coffee should we really be drinking?
![SMA research depends on one man, and his considerable resources, determined to save his daughter [Image credit: link to source via Andres Rueda at Flickr]](http://scienceline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/syringe-160x90.jpg)
A rare disease gets a new champion
A hedge fund manager and his battalion of scientists are hunting down a cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Immunologists win big in this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
Winner Steinman dies before the announcement is made
