Readers with an interest in public health, whether scholarly or casual, may want to check out the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP). This research institute "works to prevent illness and death from targeted infectious disease threats through research and the translation of scientific information into real-world, practical applications, policies, and solutions." Visitors to...

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has worked to create this excellent series of articles that help explain "how basic biomedical research - from the history of a field to the people doing cutting-edge work today - lays the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention." First-time visitors might want to check out articles like "What Students Want to Know...

Open-source data projects provide valuable access to research, and Nextstrain harnesses this data to promote public health through its "real-time snapshot of evolving pathogens." Readers new to the site may want to begin on the Docs tab. Here, users will find a brief introduction to the project, as well as various reference guides that explain how to navigate and contribute to the project. These...

The following websites provide a quick review of prion research in the news. Prions, short for "proteinaceous infectious particles," are responsible for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), mad cow disease, scrapie disease, chronic wasting disease, and other deadly brain diseases. The first website, a Science Update from the journal _Nature_, reports on an intriguing study published earlier this year...