How do diseases spread from animals to humans? Is it possible to forecast where disease outbreaks will occur and when they will blow up into major health crises? In one of the earliest episodes of Big Biology, Marty and Art talk to Barbara Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, about her research on zoonotic disease, how we track the spread of infectious diseases and whether we'll ever be able to predict outbreaks.
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Ep 23: Beauty of the Beasts
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Ep 22: Whale Aware
Ep 21: Replaying the MP3 of Life
Ep 20: Ask Us Anything
Ep 19: Microbial Garden of Eden
Ep 18: Bug in the system
Ep 17: 1000 ways to make a baby
Ep 16: Rules of Life
Ep 15: Climate change: should they stay or should they go?
Ep 14: Plasticity? Sounds fishy.
Ep 13: Unraveling Genetic Knots
Ep 12: Containing Cancer with Squirrel Ecology
Ep 11: The Vagina Research Institute (Full Conversation)
Ep 11: The Vagina Research Institute
Ep 10: Tangling the Tree of Life
Ep 9: Information, Aliens, and the Origin of Life (Full Conversation)
Ep 9: Information, Aliens, and the Origin of Life
Ep 8: Immune System: Make Love not War (Full Conversation)
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