Microbiology
The Evolution Of Clinical Research Technology To Support Remote Collaboration
Remember the days when paper documents seemed like the Gold Standard to all things official? Then along came the internet, cell phones and scanners. All of a sudden, it appeared that the world would get rid of paper. Take selling a home, for example. Nowadays, you can accomplish all the sales steps via text …
Coronavirus live news: Biden vows to get vaccinated in public as South Korea reports highest cases in nine months | World news
9.11pm EST 21:11 South Korea reports highest cases in nine months South Korea reported 629 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest number in nine months. Of the new cases, 295 were from capital Seoul alone, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency reported. A woman hangs on a paper note to wish for her …
Coronavirus live news: Fauci warns of ‘surge upon surge’ in US cases after Thanksgiving | World news
Doctors are studying the impact of Covid-19 on pregnant women and their unborn babies in Singapore, where an infant delivered by an infected mother earlier this month had antibodies against the virus but did not carry the disease. The ongoing study among the city-state’s public hospitals adds to international efforts to better understand whether the …
‘Blown away’: Australian coronavirus researchers examine everything from breastfeeding to explosives technology | Australia news
More than 200 Australian studies into Covid-19 are under way, extending far beyond the search for a vaccine. Almost every Covid-19 research project being led by Australians has been captured in a report published on Saturday, including studies of breastfeeding guidelines for parents with Covid-19, filter systems to remove the virus via air-conditioning systems, monitoring …
Coronavirus live news: US deaths headed for 100,000 by June, Brazil health minister resigns | World news
9.58pm EDT 21:58 Trump unveils ‘warp-speed’ effort to create vaccine by year’s end David Smith Donald Trump has announced details of a “warp-speed” effort to create a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, even as experts warn that such a breakthrough could take longer than 18 months. During remarks in the White House …
Coronavirus live news: Trump says he will suspend all immigration to US amid pandemic | World news
1.08am EDT 01:08 David Smith Here is everything we know so far about Trump’s tweet saying he plans to sign an executive order temporarily halting immigration to the US. Donald Trump has been accused of “xenophobic scapegoating” after he announced he will order a temporary ban on immigration into the US to combat the coronavirus …
Volunteers create world’s fastest supercomputer to combat coronavirus | Technology
The world’s fastest supercomputer has been created from volunteers loaning spare time on their home PCs to fold proteins, a scientific task that could prove instrumental in the fight against the coronavirus. According to Folding@Home, the organisation that runs the distributed computing effort, the combined power of the network broke 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second – …
Coronavirus live news: global deaths pass 95,000 as 1 in 10 Americans lose their jobs | World news
12.30am EDT 00:30 Helen Davidson Coronavirus threat to global peace and stability, UN chief warns Here now is the full story on UN secretary general Antonio Guterres’ comments on Thursday and other important developments in the pandemic. The head of the United Nations has called the coronavirus pandemic the “fight of a generation” and a …