How modelling helped our COVID response
28 Jan 2021

How modelling helped our COVID response

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Modelling is a term that is well known by scientists but has only recently been making headlines. So what does it actually mean? What does it do? And why has it become so prevalent during COVID-19? In this briefing, epidemiologists … Continued
Think like a scientist: natural selection in an outbreak
11 Sep 2017

Think like a scientist: natural selection in an outbreak

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Computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and disease ecologist Lina Moses bring us to the front line of the 2013-15 Ebola epidemic and explain the science behind how this event became the largest Ebola outbreak in history. This fascinating video gives insight … Continued