NEW YORK — As clinicians and scientists have worked to understand and control the spread and scope of the COVID-19 pandemic, molecular testing and serology have emerged as important tools for diagnosing and studying the disease. Protein-based …
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Billionaire Sir Richard Branson is set to sell as much as $400 million his of shares in Virgin Galactic as the mounting cost of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to cripple his business empire. In a statement to the New York stock exchange on Monday, …
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While most white-collar workers are riding out the coronavirus pandemic at home, many low-wage essential workers — in retail stores, e-commerce warehouses, apartment buildings and delivery trucks — have had no choice but to go to work and risk …
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The new robots can also run up steep inclines, challenging or impossible for soft robots that exert less force against the ground. Robots · Research & Development. A new soft robot that gets its inspiration from the biomechanics of cheetahs moves more …
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Ethan Weiss, a San Francisco-based cardiologist, was worried. For the past two weeks, Weiss had been in New York, the epicenter of the U.S. novel coronavirus outbreak, volunteering at hospitals to help care for patients infected with the virus. But as Weiss …
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