Share this on WhatsApp Post Views: 0 Mark Denison began hunting for a drug to treat COVID-19 almost a decade before the contagion, driven by a novel coronavirus, devastated the world this year. Denison is not a prophet, but he is a virologist and an expert on the often deadly coronavirus family, members of which […]
Share this on WhatsApp Post Views: 0 Steve Mirsky: On October 7th, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the gene editing tool called CRISPR. Last April, I spoke with Doudna at an event in Washington, DC: SM: A few months ago, I was at a […]
Share this on WhatsApp Post Views: 0 Originally published in January 1898 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “When Jules Verne wrote his fascinating book, ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ [1873], he aimed to show the utmost that could be accomplished by the means of transportation of his day. A quarter of a century later we […]