Author(s): Leslie Mertz New virus detectors using LAMP, fitness trackers, and air samplers offer faster, cheaper, yet reliable options now and for the next pandemic Earlier, better detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection…
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It’s a bacteriophage’s world; we’re just living in it Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are viruses that specifically infect bacterial cells. Their name is derived from Greek for “bacteria eater”…
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Although it is too soon to say we have reached the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists, politicians, and ordinary citizens are looking to the future and asking the same…
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While COVID-19 has been racing through much of the human population, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has also turned up in other mammals. This leads to many questions: Might these animals serve…
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The climate is changing, and, it seems, the health care sector has contributed to the problem. According to The Commonwealth Fund, the health care system accounts for about 10% of…
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Important lessons can be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, which after more than two years of worldwide suffering is still among us. First, we now better understand that global health…
read moreStudents supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are required to complete training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR). This training includes topics such as authorship,…
read moreOn October 13, 2021, Star Trek’s Captain James Tiberius Kirk, in the guise of 90-year-old actor William Shatner, rode aboard a Blue Origin rocket ship 67 miles to the edge…
read moreEdited by Mohamed-Amine Choukou and Shabbir Syed-Abdul, Academic Press, October 2021, ISBN: 9780323851732, xv +237 pages, $180 Having been the sole, then later primary caregiver for a relative, this reviewer…
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