Evolution of teaching in short-term courses: A systematic review.

Short-term courses are a useful tool for continuous training to update and deepen knowledge in various fields. In this article, we analyse the evolution of the teaching methods used in short-term courses through a systematic review conducted using the PRISMA methodology. The inclusion criteria for selecting articles were those that described the methodological structure of the teaching methods used in designing short-term courses.

A computational approach to biological pathogenicity.

The current pandemic (COVID-19) has made evident the need to approach pathogenicity from a deeper and more systematic perspective that might lead to methodologies to quickly predict new strains of microbes that could be pathogenic to humans. Here we propose as a solution a general and principled definition of pathogenicity that can be practically implemented in operational ways in a framework for characterizing and assessing the (degree of) potential pathogenicity of a microbe to a given host (e.g.