COVID-19 shows weak points in global food system
Timothy Huzar :In a commentary for the journal One Earth, Franziska Gaupp, Ph.D., a research scholar at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA),...
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Five important information of SARS-CoV-2
Dr. Muhammad Torequl Islam :1. Time for a single infected person to yield one million infected peopleThe basic reproduction number, R0, suggests each infection directly...
Oats: A natural super food
Naimur Rahman Afid :Oat is a type of cereal grain grown from a plant called Avena sativa. Generally oats are taken as breakfast food with...
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UK scraps sales tax on personal protective gear until October Britain’s finance ministry said it will extend the scrapping of sales tax on personal protective...
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New infection spike in Japan’s capital Tokyo has confirmed 107 new coronavirus infections, its highest daily tally in two months, but Japan’s chief cabinet secretary...
A Shift on the Front Line
Silvia Castelletti, M.D. :I have just finished the night shift on the Covid-19 ward. I look at myself in the mirror: I have a C...
Pandemic sparks food security crisis
Bethan Grylls (New Food) :Following the UN’s Food Programme’s warning that the COVID-19 pandemic will double the number of people suffering acute hunger by the...
Foods that boost our immune system
Md. Naim Hossain :As coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted communities around the world, many people have wondered whether there are steps they can take to stay...
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Spain, Portugal reopen their shared border Spain and Portugal reopened their shared border, which has been closed since March 16 as Lisbon sought to protect...
Vitamin E, another possible immune fighter in COVID-19
Dr. Muhammad Torequl Islam :Vitamin E (vit E) (other names: alpha-tocopherol, alpha-tocopherol, tocotrienol, 5,7,8 trimethyl-tocotrienol), a group of eight fat soluble compounds, including four tocopherols...
Proning: A life-saving therapy for severe COVID-19 patients
Md Billal Hossen :Everybody is looking for the vaccine of COVID-19 but any effective vaccine is not invented yet. Most of the people in the...
Make science portable and widely accessible
Michael Levin :COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic we face in the coming years. This is an opportunity to learn how to decentralize scientific...