Cummings School alumni and faculty members team up to help a monkey victim of the illegal pet trade The young spider monkey was no more than a year old when her mother was killed. Poachers in Belize had shot her so they could sell the young monkey as a pet. ... read more

Cummings School Professor Sam Telford, an expert on infections spread by mosquitoes and ticks, explains Actually, there is a human vaccine for eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), but it has never been approved for public use. ... read more

Watch how hard a baby painted turtle must work to hatch from its egg in this time-lapse video of 13 hours condensed to just 40 seconds! ... read more

The rare but potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus has been detected in Massachusetts and Connecticut A second human case of Eastern equine encephalitis virus infection this year was confirmed in Massachusetts last week, in a young Grafton man. Meanwhile, the first human case of EEE in the state in six years—a ... read more

The pill is the first known working device capable of non-invasively and accurately assessing the profile of bacterial species inhabiting any stage of the gastrointestinal tract ... read more