Predicting pandemics: It’s not easy, but researchers are trying

Studying human behavior on a large scale has long been used to try to predict how diseases move through a population. In the latest twist on this principle, your online footprint may offer valuable insight to researchers who are trying to thwart deadly disease outbreaks before they become widespread. Scientists, frustrated with insufficient prediction models, are more…

UGA researchers pursue quest for universal dengue vaccine 

Naoko Uno, with a pipette in one hand and quiet determination on her face, goes carefully about her work inside her laboratory at the University of Georgia’s Center for Vaccines and Immunology. Uno, a PhD student, and several others are working on a potential universal vaccine for dengue. Dengue, often called dengue fever, is a…