Image courtesy of Needpix. As isolation and social distancing measures remain in place, mental health issues are of growing concern. A paper published in the

Art by Sophia Zhao. As scientists learn about the various effects of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen on the body, researchers at UPenn and Johns Hopkins might

Art by Sophia Zhao. COVID-19 is a fickle foe, exhibiting mild symptoms in some individuals, severe pain and pneumonia in others, or in forty percent

Image courtesy of Flickr. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently developed a machine learning method called OptiVax to evaluate the effectiveness of

Image courtesy of Flickr. What if the coronavirus could infiltrate the brain––the organ that makes you who you are, stores all of your memories and

Image courtesy of Flickr. While scientists have tirelessly worked to understand SARS-CoV-2’s mechanism of infection and pathogenesis, much is still unknown. To design an effective

Artwork by Sophia Zhao. The results of the Moderna SARS-CoV-2 vaccine phase 1 clinical trial published last week have sparked new optimism in the race

Artwork by Sophia Zhao. In addition to their longevity, bats seem to be able to host deadly diseases such as Ebola, rabies and most recently

Image courtesy of Pxfuel. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have developed CoVex, an interactive online platform dedicated to compiling information on SARS-CoV-2 with

Image courtesy of NASA. Despite dozens of COVID-19 vaccine candidates entering clinical trials, vaccine research is only as trustworthy as the availability of information about

Artwork by Jenny Tan. In the race to develop a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine, researchers developed PiCoVacca, a purified inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virus vaccine candidate. To perform

Image courtesy of Flickr. A new study published by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and UCLA Law analysed data from federal prisons and proved that