01 Jul 2020
We’ll need millions of vials to distribute the vaccine. The US government thinks manufacturing methods from the semiconductor industry can help. As the Covid-19 crisis stretches into its seventh month, researchers around […]
24 Jun 2020
The company Nanox, with the support of the FAPESP programme “Innovative Research in Small Enterprises” (PIPE) in Brazil, has developed a fabric with silver microparticles on its surface capable of […]
10 Jun 2020
The study, published as a letter in the Journal of Hospital Infection, aimed to safely simulate how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, may spread across surfaces in a hospital. Instead […]
03 Jun 2020
The demand for high performance transparent conductor materials has significantly increased because the unique combination of electrical and optical properties—allowing light to effectively cross the path of electric conduction—is needed […]
27 May 2020
Can you catch the coronavirus a second time? That remains unclear. A key question is whether antibodies produced by the body following an infection with the coronavirus provide some level […]
20 May 2020
The news pieces on coronavirus are replete with instances of a 90-year-old being treated and one in 20s succumbing to the infection. As seen in every story of an epidemic, […]
13 May 2020
Contact tracing apps, which alert users when they have been in contact with infected people, are being touted as crucial aids to control the spread of Covid-19. But critics warn […]
08 May 2020
Reverse genetics has been an indispensable tool revolutionising insights into viral pathogenesis and vaccine development. Large RNA virus genomes, such as from Coronaviruses, are cumbersome to clone and manipulate in E. […]
04 May 2020
Researchers say people can catch mild, cold-causing coronaviruses twice in the same year. Starting in the fall of 2016 and continuing into 2018, researchers at Columbia University in Manhattan began […]
01 May 2020
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19 respiratory disease, has infected over 2.3 million people, killed over 160,000, and caused worldwide social and economic disruption. There are currently […]
