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A new model of fatal brain diseases is being developed in the fruit fly by a team led by Dr Raymond Bujdoso at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, and could lead to a low cost, fast and efficient blood test to diagnose – and prevent possible transmission of – variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). 

As well as telling us more about earlier societies, the study of diseases in the past is proving an invaluable tool for modern science, as a new book by the historian of medicine Mary Dobson reveals.