INTRODUCTION The pandemic readiness toolbox needs to be extended, providing diagnostic tools that target different biomolecules, using orthogonal experimental setups and fit-for-purpose specification of detection. Here we build on a previous Cov-MS effort that used liqu...

The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a significant public-health problem. In order to control the pandemic, rapid tests for detecting existing infections and assessing virus spread are critical. Approaches to detect viral RNA based on reverse transcription loop-medi...

Moldova is exposed to an array of natural hazards, and their impact disproportionately affects the poor. The Government of Moldova has been strengthening institutions to better prepare for and respond to disasters. It has improved the ability to forecast severe weather,...

O artigo apresenta um estudo a mercê das exportações brasileiras durante a pandemia do COVID-19. A forma mais eficiente que o governo encontrou para conter a contaminação e o número de mortes é o lockdown, que foi estabelecido no país. Entretanto, ocasionou fortes impac...

The world of work was not only temporarily shaken in the beginning of year 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic, but rather rearranged the way no one probably had imagined before. The change towards work being remote-based in many organizations and even industries inspired thi...

Fridays for Future, which was set up to campaign against climate change, has had a major impact across Europe. Yet the Covid-19 outbreak has forced the movement to adopt new strategies beyond public demonstrations. Sophia Hunger and Swen Hutter examine how supporters we...

Corona viruses are a large family of viruses that are not only restricted to causing illness inhumans but also affect animals such as camels, cattle, cats, and bats, thus affecting a large group ofliving species. The outbreak of Corona virus in late December 2019 (also ...

In the Covid-19 crisis, with few or no people and animals around, space opens and we can look inside ourselves, writes Deborah Rowland and Nicole Brauckmann