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Smell and Taste Changes: The Best Way to Guide Lockdown Policy?
For the original article, please follow this link. This article was reviewed by Dr. Emily Bowman, one of our subject matter experts. Brief Summary: This study by Denis Pierron et al. investigated the reliability of self-reported smell and taste change numbers across France as an indicator to predict surges of COVID-19 hospital admissions and a basis for … Continue reading Smell and Taste Changes: The Best Way to Guide Lockdown Policy?
Q-Z of Research: Science to English Dictionary, Part 3
This is the fourth instalment of our Science to English dictionary. Our first instalment can be found here, the second instalment can be found here and the third instalment can be found here. R S T V W
J-P of Research (Science to English Dictionary: Part 3)
This is the second instalment of our Science to English dictionary. You can find our first instalment (with terms from A-C) here and our second instalment (D-I) here. L M P
Video Sidebar: SARS-CoV-2 vs the Flu
Our author Demitri takes you through some of the key differences between SARS-CoV-2 and the common flu.
Investigating T cell Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2
This post was reviewed by Dr. Emily Bowman, one of our subject matter experts. The paper we’re demystifying today can be found here, if you’d like to tag along! Summary Researchers investigated the immune system’s T-cell response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in people who were completely unexposed to COVID-19, people who were exposed to COVID-19 … Continue reading Investigating T cell Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2
The In-Crowd: SARS-CoV-2 vs. Your Microbiome
Image credit: “Petri dishes with cultures of bacteria grown on agar jelly.” by M. J. Richardson is under a CC BY-SA 2.0 License. This post was reviewed by Dr. Brett Finlay, one of our subject matter experts. This study was conducted by researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The paper we’ll be demystifying … Continue reading The In-Crowd: SARS-CoV-2 vs. Your Microbiome
Overcoming Middle World
By Jacob L. Fine (Image from here) The world we see is not the world that is. Our sense organs were sculpted by natural selection to help us survive in what the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins calls Middle World. He is quick to distinguish this from the J. R. R. Tolkien’s land of hobbits and … Continue reading Overcoming Middle World
Effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection in human airway cells
This post was reviewed by Dr. Jasmin Chahal, one of our subject matter experts. For the original article, please follow this link. TL;DR: Compared to other coronaviruses (SARS-CoV and HCoV-NL63), SARS-CoV-2 spreads much more efficiently in a short time although all three coronaviruses use the same receptor to enter the cell and infect it. In … Continue reading Effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection in human airway cells
Video Sidebar: SARS-CoV-2 VS Other Coronaviruses
References Link to Attenuation of replication by a 29 nucleotide deletion in SARS-coronavirus acquired during the early stages of human-to-human transmission paper in Nature Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33487-8 Link to Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) report https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf Link to Preliminary estimation of the basic reproduction number of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) … Continue reading Video Sidebar: SARS-CoV-2 VS Other Coronaviruses
Sidebar: Healthcare Heroes in Wuhan, China
Author’s Note The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for our healthcare heroes. As the on-going pandemic continues, many of our healthcare heroes are continually risking their lives to help fight the battle. I personally wanted to celebrate our healthcare heroes by highlighting research that describes the experiences of healthcare professionals. Thus, I hope this … Continue reading Sidebar: Healthcare Heroes in Wuhan, China
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