Alice Hazelton is Science Programme Specialist at the World Economic Forum
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s the importance of scientific collaboration. From when first reports of a new disease circulating in Wuhan, China, broke at the very end of 201...
Icelandic study shows that antibodies persist for four months
A new study published this week in the Lancet shows that a mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 virus is linked to milder symptoms than those caused by a virus without the mutation.
Vaccine candidate protects monkeys from infection in single shot
First data from Moderna vaccine trial show it spurs an immune response
First life-saving drug identified and it's cheap and widely available
Since one of the first studies emerged in January from Wuhan, China, researchers have known that COVID-19 seems to affect men more than women. More recent studies from Italy and New York ...
La crisis de COVID-19 ha puesto de relieve el papel vital de la ciencia en la sociedad. La ciencia nos proporcionará una "estrategia de salida" de la pandemia cuando finalmente se desarro...
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted science’s vital role in society. Science will provide us with an “exit strategy” from the pandemic when a vaccine is finally developed but until then, ...
It is still not clear whether people infected with coronavirus are immune to the virus after they recover. It’s a key scientific question that needs to be addressed, especially as many he...
"Unless we open up our economy, we have millions facing starvation."
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidance on controversial challenge trials in which healthy volunteers would be deliberately infected with COVID-19.
A recent (unpublished) study comparing the symptoms of identical and non-identical twins infected with COVID-19 concluded that COVID-19 symptoms appear to be around 50% genetic. The findi...
As confirmed cases of COVID-19 near 1 million worldwide, here’s a round-up of some of the latest scientific developments.
Last week I returned home from a month-long trip during which – shock horror! – I was without an internet connection.
