The Isdalen valley is an unforgiving place. It sits in the shadow of the largest of a group of mountains overlooking the Norwegian city of Bergen, its rocks whipped bare of grass by bracing
The world of viruses is a turbulent one. When they find their way into human populations they can spread like wildfire and cause serious disease, before seeming to slink away again. This
Recently, I wrote a post about how we may find the solutions to some of our most baffling problems where we least suspect them. This one develops on that somewhat, discussing how
In all walks of life, but particularly in science, we are marching inexorably forwards at a rate almost unmatched by any other point in history. Daily, research that was at one point
When Italian neurologist Pierluigi Gambetti characterised the condition known as Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI), he described it as “the worst disease you can get”. Given the plethora of devastating diseases we can
