News
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Seeing malaria in a new light
CZ Biohub’s Bioengineering team sends custom microscopes to Uganda to test out a new approach to diagnosing malaria
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What causes inflammation and how does it affect our health?
Learn all about inflammation — its causes, its impact on the human body, and how researchers are working to better understand its role in disease.
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Building a global network of disease detectives
‘CZ ID’ platform is helping researchers around the world identify new pathogens
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This tech tool is transforming our ability to detect and track diseases
How a project that began in an academic lab led to the launch of Chan Zuckerberg ID (CZ ID) — a tool that helps researchers detect and track emerging infectious diseases.
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‘Collaboration is powerful’
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Keir Balla doesn’t have all the answers, and that’s exactly how he likes it
New Group Leader brings an exploratory spirit to the Biohub
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Does a warming Earth mean more sickness?
How climate change is increasing the risk of infectious disease
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What’s it like to work in public health during a pandemic?
Watch how Jeremy Corrigan is using Chan Zuckerberg GEN EPI to track and stop outbreaks across his community.
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What can plants teach us about treating brain disease?
Two colleagues from MIT’s Department of Biology are teaming up to study how we might borrow a superpower from plants to treat neurodegenerative disease.
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The viruses that buzz around us
Sequencing all the RNA within individual mosquitoes can identify the potentially harmful viruses and emerging pathogens these insect vectors carry and transmit, as well as their animal reservoirs
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Getting the stains out
CZ Biohub scientists are building an automated imaging system for low-resource settings to reliably detect malaria in blood samples
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Wild adaptations
Like Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen, cholera bacteria and their viral nemeses run a never-ending race just to keep up with each other