Image credit: “COVID-19 Outbreak World Map per Capita” by Raphaël Dunant is under a CC BY 4.0 license. The article we’re demystifying today can be found here if you’d like to follow along. It’s rare that sequels are an improvement on the original. Thor gave rise to Thor: The Dark World, Call of Duty descended … Continue reading CovMT: An Interactive SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Tracker
Author: Ryan Chan
Hi, my name is Ryan Chan, I’m a fourth-year biotechnology student at UBC. My lab experience is primarily in molecular genetics and neuroscience, but I have a passion for virology and experience in scientific communication. This, coupled with our current crisis, motivated me start writing these articles to help others understand COVID-19 and the scientific journey of unraveling its secrets.
Cleaning House: How SARS-CoV-2 Evades Cellular Clean-up
Image credit: “Mouse Intestine Tissue Autophagy” by Dimitra Kalamida is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license. This article was reviewed by Dr. Phil Lange, one of our subject matter experts. The paper we’ll be demystifying can be found here, if you’d like to follow along! TL;DR: Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences found a SARS-CoV-2 … Continue reading Cleaning House: How SARS-CoV-2 Evades Cellular Clean-up
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
UV Rays Zap Human Coronaviruses
Image credit: "Fluorescent Led Ultraviolet" by sum+it is under the Pexels License This post was reviewed by E. Idil Temel, one of our subject matter experts. This study was conducted by researchers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The paper we’ll be demystifying can be found here, if you’d like to follow along! TL;DR: Researchers investigated … Continue reading UV Rays Zap Human Coronaviruses
Monkeying Around with a COVID-19 Vaccine
Image credit: “Gibraltar Barbary Macaque” by Redcoat is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license. This post was reviewed by Dr. Emily Bowman, one of our subject matter experts. This study was conducted by researchers from Beijing Bio-Institute Biological Products Co Ltd, China CDC, Peking Union Medical College, National Institute for Food … Continue reading Monkeying Around with a COVID-19 Vaccine