From many things that you have heard about COVID-19 in 2020, one thing in the midst of it all is the test used to detect if someone is contaminated with the virus, the famous RT-PCR test or only PCR. Surely,…Read more
Precision is the trademark of a scientist. Leaving no stones unturned, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna discovered the revolutionary tool in gene technology called CRISPR/Cas9, “The Genetic Scissors”. The pioneers, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, of this life changing tool…Read more
In one of the global scientific benchmark events of the year held at Stockholm on 5th October 2020, the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to a group of virologists and biochemists for the discovery of the Hepatitis…Read more
Increasingly, journals are asking for a graphical abstract to submit a paper. But why is this becoming so important? This happens, because graphical abstracts are a way of communicating with high understanding, accessibility and are remarkable for a research, being…Read more
As we mentioned on the very first post of this series about coronavirus, the rythm of scientific publications on this field is skyrocketing. The word “coronavirus” is a popular search term in the scientific literature, according to specialized search engines…Read more
Vaccines are on the way… and many more good news. It will still take some time, but the coronavirus is apparently defeated. They came from the Peter Diamandis website – always him – thinking on an abundant way. It’s the…Read more
What are the differences between coronavirus symptoms to flu (influenza) and allergy symptoms? Why should we know it? To avoid going to the hospital for no reason… did you know that health services are a important focus points for contamination?…Read more
Two recent papers summarized one in vitro research and a small scale clinical study was enough for Donald Trump to make the FDA enforce a new drug clinical indication for hydroxychloroquine: improve symptoms of Coronavirus (Covid-19)-affected patients. This is probably…Read more
This is the whole list of all scientific articles about COVID-19 available in the medical literature, according to Pubmed. Guess what? Almost half of them are written in chinese. No wonder that last year China bet USA in number of…Read more
Students looking for a higher education institution would probably all use the same word to describe the experience: overwhelming. There are endless factors to consider when selecting a school: rankings, graduate outcomes, student demographics, faculty members, available programs and courses,…Read more
Climate change is still a controversial subject. Sometimes scientific evidences fade out faced personal opinions and polemic talks. We believe every discussion about need to be based on we already know as society, based on science. So, this post has a…Read more
