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Understanding how COVID-19 Patients shed viral particles into their environment

The University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine were among the first U.S. hospitals to provide care for individuals infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. When the first news of viral pneumonia in Wuhan, China began appearing in December of 2019, the nursing and research... click to read more

  • Joshua L. Santarpia | Associate Professor at Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Views 4093
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jan 4, 2021
The struggle to comply with social distancing

COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed our lives. To curb the virus's spread, we have tried to keep a distance from our neighbors, postpone large group gatherings, and frequently isolate ourselves at home. These social (or physical) distancing practices are at odds with the interactive nature... click to read more

  • Weizhen Xie | Postdoctoral Fellow at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, USA
  • Stephen Campbell | Research Associate at Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
  • Weiwei Zhang | Associate Professor at Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
Views 5271
Reading time 3 min
published on Nov 24, 2020
The importance of being tested

Imagine the global threat of a potentially lethal virus, showing up in mainland China and rapidly spreading worldwide, for which no effective treatments or vaccines are available. A few months ago, this would have been nothing more than a book or a movie plot. Unfortunately, it... click to read more

  • Giulia Giordano | Assistant Professor at Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Views 8843
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jul 15, 2020
When the girdle of social timing relaxes: Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on human sleep

Do you know these Monday mornings when the alarm clock shakes you out of sleep way too early, and you already yearn for the next weekend, when you can finally lie in again? Actually, this illustrates a common situation in modern societies, where internally or... click to read more

  • Christine Blume | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Centre for Chronobiology, Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel; Transfaculty Research Platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Marlene H. Schmidt | Graduate student at Centre for Chronobiology, Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel; Transfaculty Research Platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Views 7040
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jul 9, 2020
The life-span of SARS-CoV-2 in pediatric patients

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, scientists are racing against the clock to understand this new disease. Researchers worldwide have come together to fight this looming threat and understand how it spreads, who gets sick, and how one becomes immune. For our research, much... click to read more

  • Sarah Gibson | Medical student at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, USA
  • Charlotte Zhang | Medical student at Guangzhou Regenerative medicine and Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, China
  • Oulan Li | Medical student at Guangzhou Regenerative medicine and Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, China
  • Yi Xu | Medical Doctor at Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou, China
Views 5567
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jun 9, 2020