Robots are helping health care workers and public safety officials more safely and quickly treat coronavirus patients and contain the pandemic. They have something in common: They’re tried and tested.
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America’s news reports and social media chatter open a window into the nation’s psyche. An AI-based text analysis of these words shows that the coronavirus is driving up familiar social ills.
We spend 90% of our lives indoors, and every building has its own indoor microbiome. Can we learn to manage them in ways that support helpful microbes and suppress harmful ones?
University of Pittsburgh researchers are developing a vaccine patch for COVID-19 that is as easy to apply as a Band-Aid.
A simple chemical reaction turns the red pigment of beets into a new, nontoxic blue dye.
Traditional vaccines can take years to create. Rather than immunizing people with viral proteins, the new approach gives the molecular instructions that allows the body to make its own vaccine.
Under pressure to develop a coronavirus vaccine, researchers have turned to protein synthesis, genetics and hybrid viruses. It is likely a mix of these approaches will be used to fight the coronavirus.
Researchers are turning microbes into microscopic construction crews by altering their DNA to make them produce building materials. The work could lead to more sustainable buildings.
Among the more than 20,000 drugs approved by the FDA, there may be some that can treat COVID-19. A team at the University of California, San Francisco, is identifying possible candidates.
Encouraging kids to complete their work can be tough for families managing full-time work and family obligations on a tight budget. And that’s true even when schools are operating normally.
The internet has allowed pseudoscience to flourish. Artificial intelligence could help steer people away from the bad information.
Machine learning technology was first to sound the alarm about the new coronavirus. Its success illustrates how AI is boosting epidemiology.
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Professor and Director of Quantitative Biosciences Institute & Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Chemistry, Connecticut College
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John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University
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Associate Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Governor's Chair, Biophysics, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor Innovation and Inclusion in the STEM Ecosystem, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University
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Associate Professor in Law, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Indiana University
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Professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Associate Professor of Physics, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Environmental Engineering and the Mortenson Professor in Sustainable Development, University of Colorado Boulder
