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    How Corona Changed My Research – and My Way to Lindau

    Published on September 18, 2020

    In our newest blog post, #LINO70 young scientist Khalid El Bairi describes how COVID-19 impacted his work (and his way to Lindau):

    With the emergence of the COVID-19 outbreak and its disastrous consequences, the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for this year was postponed to next summer. I feel disappointed, but I know that every tragedy that threatens human life is an opportunity for scientific discoveries. The response of biomedical and clinical researchers to this pandemic across the globe was quick and more than 55,000 articles were published and 3,300 clinical trials were started in only eight months. The fact that I am too far from the scientific field of this outbreak did not discourage me from contributing to this fight. Despite that I was focusing on my doctorate and publishing my first book, I took a break and a new idea came up to join this struggle.

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    Women in Research: Alice Fletcher-Etherington From the United Kingdom

    September 10, 2020
    #LINO70 young scientist Alice Fletcher-Etherington is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge interested in how viruses interact with host cell intrinsic immune responses. More recently, she has been applying the mass spectrometry techniques she uses in her PhD to study COVID-19 pathogenesis. Learn more about her and her work in her Women in Research interview on our blog:In your opinion, wha

    Handling COVID-19 and Climate Change, a Familiar Tragedy Looms

    September 25, 2020
    In our newest blog post, science writer Andrei Mihai looks at COVID-19 measures and climate change as a tragedy of the commons. While COVID-19 is certainly one of the biggest tests society has faced over the past century, even the pandemic fades in comparison to the massive challenge of global warming. Global warming is not only a tragedy of the commons at an individual level, it’s a tragedy at an
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