TIME

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COVID-19 WILL NOT BE THE last pandemic in our deeply interconnected world, and sadly it won’t be the worst. Two profoundly different possible futures are available to us: one in which we stick our heads in the sand as we have consistently done, and o

The Atlantic

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On this episode of Social Distance, James Hamblin and Katherine Wells talk to staff writer Ed Yong about why he isn’t alarmed by recent news stories suggesting that a new strain of the coronavirus is on the loose. Listen to the episode here: Subscrib

WellBeing

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As 2020 galloped into full momentum, a large swathe of humanity suddenly found itself frozen in mid-stride, engulfed in the nightmare tsunami that has become the devastating legacy of the coronavirus. As the year has unfolded, and we have allowed our

Time Magazine International Edition

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WE ARE AT WAR WITH A VIRUS THAT IS CURRENTLY KILLING Americans at the rate of two 9/11s a week—by Christmas it could be three. If 1,000 Americans were dying each day in a war, we would act swiftly and decisively. Yet we do not. The virus is winning.

TIME

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WE ARE AT WAR WITH A VIRUS THAT IS CURRENTLY KILLING Americans at the rate of two 9/11s a week—by Christmas it could be three. If 1,000 Americans were dying each day in a war, we would act swiftly and decisively. Yet we do not. The virus is winning.

NPR

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There are various studies looking at changes to the virus genome — and the possible impact on how the virus affects humans. Here's what we know (and don't yet know) about mutations.

Time Magazine International Edition

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COVID-19 WILL NOT BE THE last pandemic in our deeply interconnected world, and sadly it won’t be the worst. Two profoundly different possible futures are available to us: one in which we stick our heads in the sand as we have consistently done, and o

STAT

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A team of researchers has found viruses related to human pathogens like ones that cause the common cold — and they collected them using drones.

The Atlantic

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In garden ponds and in oceans, in desert soil and in industrial water-cooling towers, matters of life and death are playing out unseen by the human eye. Here, giant viruses prey on single-celled hosts such as amoebas or algae. This microscopic bloodb

Los Angeles Times

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BEIJING - The neighbors were free at last. After weeks of confinement to their apartments because one person in the building had tested positive for coronavirus, they were throwing a party to celebrate his recovery and their release. It was Feb. 24,

Cannabis & Tech Today

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At one point not so long in the past, it was commonly said amongst the cannabis cultivation community that “cannabis doesn’t get viruses.” That cannabis’ closest cousin – hops – has multiple known viruses and viroids of significant impact should have

NPR

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The hunt is on to find the source of the coronavirus outbreak, now at 30 cases. The country is working to understand how the virus slipped through its defenses.

Newsweek

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In the wrong hands, this technology could create a weapon with the potential to inflict catastrophic damage on an unprecedented scale.

The Atlantic

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A plant virus distributes its genes into eight separate segments that can all reproduce, even if they infect different cells.

The Independent

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The revelation that some people can be reinfected with Sars-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, will have sent a shiver down the spine of many. Confirmation first came from Hong Kong, where scientists proved via genome sequencing that a man ha

Futurity

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A new tool can monitor influenza A virus mutations in real time, researchers report. The tool could help virologists learn how to stop viruses from replicating, according to the new study. The gold nanoparticle-based probe measures viral RNA in live

Post Magazine

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The virus that causes the Covid-19 disease has now infected more than 54 million people across the planet, but the question of just where it came from remains a mystery. Researchers may have found a new link in this puzzle after discovering evidence

Sunday Tribune

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LONDON: All the Covid-causing virus circulating in the world could easily fit inside a single cola can, according to a calculation by a British mathematician whose sum exposes how much devastation is caused by minuscule viral particles. Using global

Futurity

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A new tool promises to advance understanding of the importance of sugars in the human body. Most people understand sugar as something sweet that we eat, but complex structures of sugars actually decorate the surface of every cell in the human body. S

Futurity

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There’s no easy answer to how long viruses survive in dead bodies, but we’ve learned lessons from the past, says virologist Matt Koci. Some of the many questions about today’s COVID-19 pandemic revolve around what happens to viruses in the remains of

Post South Africa

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IN THE midst of the Covid-19 pandemic a strong immune system is more imperative than ever, as it’s critical to the defence against viral infections. What is Immunity? Simply put, immunity is protection from disease. The immune system does not exist

India Today

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Pankaj Ghatate, a Mumbai-based mechanical engineer with a South Korean firm, had been sent by his company on six-month deputation to Seoul. He cut his assignment short and returned on February 25 after the virus outbreak spread across the East Asian

How It Works

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Soap molecules have two ends: a head that loves to sit in water and a tail that loves to hide in fats. The soap molecules knock membrane molecules out of the way, interfering with the delicate structure of the virus’ protective bubble and making it f

Healthy Food Guide

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In some people, there is no definite cause, but depending on the person, there are a wide variety of triggers, including: → Menstruation → Trauma/stress → Fever → Extreme tiredness → Exposure to sunlight → Extreme weather conditions → Anything that

You South Africa

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SURELY it can be treated, people thought at first. It’s a flu virus – how hard can it be? But as we’re seeing, it’s very hard. Very hard indeed. Covid-19 is a new strain from the coronavirus family which means no one knows how to treat it yet. Scien

Farmer's Weekly

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Widespread rain over most of South Africa is significantly increasing the risk of insect- and tick-borne disease outbreaks. Dr Faffa Malan, manager of the Ruminant Veterinary Association of South Africa, said that this risk was greater than the risk

Futurity

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About 70 percent of the world’s production of cocoa—chocolate’s main ingredient—comes from just six small countries of West Africa, where a blight disease that kills cacao trees is spreading rapidly. The disease is causing decline and death in some t

NPR

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The best protection against the coronavirus would be a vaccine. But that's probably at least a year away, even if crash development programs succeed. What can be done in the meantime?

Click

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Gazillions of tiny, tiny, tiny creatures live on and in your body. And not just there. They’re in the air, in water, in dirt, in and on plants and animals—everywhere! They are called microbes, and you need a microscope to see them. We couldn’t live w

How It Works

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Samples taken from patients’ noses and throats are placed in a tube with half a teaspoon of liquid. Sample tubes are opened and put into a plate with a lysis buffer. This is a chemical which breaks down any virus in the sample, making it safe while