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The family of seven known human coronaviruses are known for their impact on the respiratory tract, not the heart. However, the most recent coronavirus, severe acute...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread rapidly across the globe, causing epidemics that range from quickly controlled local outbreaks (such as New Zealand)...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to unprecedented changes in all aspects of our lives and has placed biomedical research at the forefront. One...
Summary A primary goal of science is to produce robust and generalizable theories of empirical phenomena. For psychologists, the phenomena of interest are the human mind...
Summary Plastic waste presents a number of environmental problems (1–3). Although only a small fraction of it enters rivers, lakes, and oceans, it can be transformed...
Summary The intestine is exposed to numerous hazards and is heavily colonized by microorganisms. This requires a balanced protective system, which includes secreted mucus layers that...
Summary The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created some of its own problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as issuing flawed tests in...
Summary Six-year-old Yachay Tech University in Ecuador was supposed to become a top research university and an international hub for science and higher education. Instead, it...
Summary When Deborah Birx, a physician with a background in HIV/AIDS research, was named coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in February, she was...
Summary One of the world’s largest nongovernmental funders of science, the Wellcome Trust, is enlarging its focus to include goal-oriented, as well as basic research. The...
