As SARS-CoV-2 swept across the world in 2020, it left a wave of national lockdowns in its wake. Different countries enforced these lockdowns in different ways. Australia made good use of its status as an island, barring travel into the country except in strict instances followed by a fourteen-day quarantine. Towns in Italy and Spain…
This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to two women, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, for the first time in the history of the award. The importance of two women receiving such a prestigious award in a field that has been historically dominated by men is evident, but what likely remains obscure to many…
Inquiries seeking updates about the COVID-19 vaccine are no doubt common Google searches nowadays. The vaccine is the light at the end of the tunnel—the key that will set the world free from the nightmare of this pandemic. People might be marvelling at the fact that they have gone from dreading the word shot as…
“Wait,” the nurse says, poking her head through the curtain into my room in the ER, “I haven’t told them yet.” My heart drops and my teeth start to chatter; this must mean my chest and back pain weren’t as benign as I’d thought. “Well,” the doctor who had been cut off by the nurse,…