COVID-19
Coronavirus may force massive changes to restaurant industry, including customer temperature checks
Many are dreaming about what they'll do when the coronavirus pandemic is behind us. People are already imagining their first ...
Using artificial intelligence to predict who will get sickest from coronavirus
Scientists in the United States and China have developed a prototype artificial intelligence (AI) tool that, in a small-scale study, ...
Dark side of CRISPR: Rogue scientists could design something nastier than the coronavirus
When we’ve emerged on the other side of the pandemic, Covid-19 will someday make a good story. But I worry ...
Synthetic biology amps up ‘decades-old’ vaccine technology
According to STAT, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institute of Health (NIH) are betting on synthetic biology to ...
Coronavirus can remain viable on everyday surfaces for up to 3 days. Here’s how to protect yourself
Disinfecting an area takes time and effort. And there is only so much you can do ...
‘Virtual dating’ and how the coronavirus is changing the romantic landscape
Welcome to dating and sex during the coronavirus pandemic. Dating apps have struggled; after all, the whole point of dating ...
Why social distancing is so crucial in the fight against COVID-19
While Covid-19 is different in many ways from the Spanish flu – particularly in terms of who it affects and its ...
Inoculating yourself against coronavirus conspiracy theories
To understand why there’s so much misinformation out there — for example, that the virus was purposely created in a ...
Dealing with ‘confusing directives’, US doctors seek coronavirus advice from Chinese counterparts
Now, fed up with what they see as inadequate and confusing directives from public health authorities, many physicians are trying ...
3 million COVID-19 vaccines a week by June? British American Tobacco in pre-clinical trials on cloning-developed plant-based antigen
British American Tobacco (BAT), which makes Lucky Strike and Benson & Hedges, says it is developing a vaccine for Covid-19, ...
Coronavirus might push us towards a more automated society
There’s plenty of hope and opportunity to be found in this crisis. Peter Xing, a keynote speaker and writer on ...
Infographic: Buying time: What we gain from strong coronavirus measures, including suppression strategies
Summary of the article: Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak ...
How America’s obesity epidemic could exacerbate deadly impact of coronavirus
With businesses facing bankruptcy, schools closed and sports events canceled, President Trump and others have now asked: Is the cure ...
CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna turns lab into coronavirus test center
A team of academic and industry researchers led by Jennifer Doudna, the researcher best known for her role in the ...
Timing ‘couldn’t have been worse’: Why travel restrictions didn’t prevent a coronavirus pandemic
The most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven’t been enough. We analyzed the movements of ...
Viewpoint: LA restaurants tried to sell groceries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Why did the city shut them down?
A few Los Angeles restaurants struggling to maintain footing amid the COVID-19 outbreak identified a clever way to generate revenue ...
Coronavirus may survive longer than expected on uncleaned surfaces
The news: There were still traces of coronavirus on the Diamond Princess cruise ship 17 days after it emptied of passengers, according to a ...
Podcast: Coronavirus and food safety; debunking the ‘Dirty Dozen’; COVID-19 cure worse than the disease?
As the world takes unprecedented measures to blunt the coronavirus pandemic, some commentators argue 'the cure is worse than the ...
There are 7 coronaviruses that infect humans. Here’s what makes SARS-CoV-2 so dangerous
SARS-CoV-2 is not the flu. It causes a disease with different symptoms, spreads and kills more readily, and belongs to a completely ...
Warm weather won’t solve COVID-19 pandemic by itself
Many infectious diseases wax and wane with the changing months. Some, like flu, spike when the weather turns cold, while others, ...
Video: Biohackers take coronavirus vaccine into their own hands
A collective of biohackers has begun circulating a document proposing a plan to create, test, and distribute a vaccine to ...
Fact checking COVID-19 Facebook posts: Philippines, Sri Lanka aren’t killing coronavirus with aerial pesticide spraying
Purported advisories urging residents to stay indoors while national air force helicopters spray disinfectant over homes to kill off the ...
Losing sense of taste and smell could be ‘early warning sign’ of coronavirus infection
Nearly two weeks ago, Alessandro Laurenzi, a biologist working as a consultant in Bologna, Italy, was mowing the grass in his ...
In pursuit of coronavirus treatments and why we need to be cautious
It's impossible to keep up with entries at ClinicalTrials.gov that include the search term “COVID-19.” Last week when I posted Can ...
Podcast: Coronavirus isn’t just a bad flu; COVID-19 vaccine may be delayed; and have we cured HIV?
The novel coronavirus is not just "the flu," contrary to what you may have read on social media. There may ...
No reason to worry about being infected with the coronavirus twice, monkey study suggests
With increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths—and “social distancing” now a household word—the possibility of being infected is ...
Summer is coming. Will it slow the spread of the coronavirus?
A team of researchers unveiled the results of a new study last week that looked at how temperature and humidity ...
