All covid-19 articles – Page 7
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BusinessEncouraging signs from initial Covid-19 vaccine trials
Human trials deliver positive immune responses, while primate challenge studies suggest protection is possible
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Podcast
Favipiravir
Originally developed to treat flu and marketed in Japan as Avigan, promising Covid-19 trial results have seen countries stockpiling this medication by the millions
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Business
Dow to cut 2000 jobs worldwide
Cuts prompted by slowdown in high value construction and automotive materials
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Opinion
Looking beyond the next wave
We need to apply lessons from Covid-19 to tackle antimicrobial resistance and climate change
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Fung Fun Man
An education technology guru in Singapore finds himself inundated with requests for advice and invitations to speak since the pandemic hit
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News
Russian cyber spies are targeting Covid-19 vaccine research
Intelligence officials warn that Russian hackers are trying to steal intellectual property from UK, US and Canadian organisations working on novel coronavirus vaccines
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News
Hand-powered centrifuge setup can diagnose Covid-19 for just a dollar a test
$5 centrifuge based on children’s toy part of raft of cheap technologies that can detect the virus in saliva in remote locations
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Research
Algorithm predicts mortality of Covid-19 patients from blood biomarkers
Artificial intelligence tool to help doctors prioritise treatment
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News
Chemistry departments across the UK tackle herculean task of reopening
Face masks and hand sanitiser the norm as researchers return to work
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News
Does hydroxychloroquine still have a role to play in this pandemic?
Touted as a wonder drug by some its star now appears to be on the wane
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Business
What are the risks of fast-tracking a Covid-19 vaccine?
Condensing timelines from years to months inevitably involves compromises
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Martyn Coles
In New Zealand, where there are close to zero active cases of Covid-19, labs have reopened with no distancing rules
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Review
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop
What have viruses, gun violence and the ice bucket challenge in common?
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Podcast
Book club – Three books on pandemics
We’re tackling the coronavirus information overload by discussing and comparing three books that offer different views on pandemics past and present
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News
Explainer: The science of Covid-19 testing
Rapidly-deployed methods are saving lives and easing minds
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Business
Scrambling and gambling to scale up Covid-19 medicines
Organisations work towards making billions of doses of products not yet proven to work
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Careers
UK universities prepare for a new academic year
Much uncertainty remains as chemistry departments plan how they’ll resume undergraduate teaching
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Omar Farha
An MOF pioneer has just reopened his lab at Northwestern University after more than two months, with new social distancing precautions
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Opinion
Dragons of immunology
Anti-inflammatories like dexamethasone are triumphs amid the pitfalls of the immune system
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News
CRUK warns of £150m cut to research funding
Charity calls for government support as coronavirus hits fundraising efforts
