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Microfluidics is the field of science that studies fluids constrained to spaces that are smaller than one millimeter wide, and by extension, the engineering field which builds devices that exploit the unique properties of fluids at these scales. Author Albert Folch explores this micro science which has inspired engineers to build devices such as engines, spray cans, ballpoint pens, inkjet and 3D printers, pregnancy and Covid tests, glucometers, asthma nebulizers, kidney dialysis machines, and DNA analyzers.

""Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderfully lucid descriptions of bats. . . . They powerfully recount how dangerous pathogens can both leak from a lab and emerge in nature."" (New York...

It can come in waves - like tidal waves. It changes societies. It disrupts life. It ends lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives. Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to zombies. Their only known function is to replicate themselves, which can have devastating consequences on their hosts.

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the...

THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn’t expect, changing their entire outlook on life. This inspiring and deeply moving book is the...

As bad as Covid-19 was, the next pandemic could be worse—but we have the tools to prepare, as revealed in this urgent, gripping warning by the New York Times bestselling authors of Deadliest Enemy. The Covid-19 pandemic was the most devastating natural event of the last century, killing more...

This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today, and in a new preface addresses the global threat of COVID-19. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual history, and warfare.

The enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease offers a vivid reminder that infectious disease pandemics are one of the greatest existential threats to humanity. This book provides an accessible explanation of how viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work - concepts that are a foundation for our public health policies.

An urgent case for how we could have stopped the Covid-19 pandemic—and how to make sure it never happens again "MacKenzie's fascinating book gives us the scope and scale to be able to put this pandemic in perspective and, it begs the question, will we learn from this in time to prevent to next...

In early 2020, our lives were upended by a new virus that caused the most severe pandemic in over a century. In the span of a few weeks, even visiting a grocery store became a task in risk assessment. Cities and countries across the world closed their borders for their own citizens, as well as...

A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises. Is this finally it? The end times?Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution—not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and...

For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada. Duffin describes the frightening appearance of the virus and its identification by scientists in China; subsequent outbreaks on cruise ships; the relentless spread to Europe, the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere; and the immediate attempts to confront it. COVID-19 next explores the scientific history of infections generally, and the discovery of coronaviruses in particular.

Seitdem Menschen sesshafte Landwirtschaft betreiben, kommt es immer wieder zu tödlichen Epidemien. Aber warum nehmen diese Infektionen heute die Form weltweiter Pandemien an, so wie es bei COVID-19, SARS, MERS oder der Vogelgrippe der Fall war? Warum häufen sie sich - und was lässt sich dagegen unternehmen? Der US-amerikanische Biologe Rob Wallace erklärt, wie Pandemien entstehen und warum sie sich global ausbreiten. In seiner Analyse berücksichtigt er die evolutionäre Dynamik der Krankheitserreger ebenso wie die gegenwärtigen ökologischen und ökonomischen Strukturen.

COVID REWIND è una serie podcast antologica, a carattere divulgativo. Mediante un lungo flashback, COVID REWIND riavvolge la timeline della narrativa-Covid, fino a ricongiungersi col presente, con il proposito di garantire una visione organica e multidisciplinare dell’intero fenomeno, che viene, dunque, affrontato da ogni prospettiva (logica, scientifica, sociologica, legale, giuridica, mediatica, medica, storica), attraverso la voce di esperti, distanti dal paradigma dominante, nell’arco di una successione di puntate, ciascuna della durata di circa 60 minuti.Il titolo strizza l’occhio ...

The definitive, inside account of the Trump Administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic from White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator and Coronavirus Task Force member, Dr. Deborah Birx. In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx—a lifelong federal health official who had worked at...

covid:aid, the UK's Covid-19 charity, speaks to experts about the key issues we face due to the coronavirus pandemic. We find out more about the vital work they have been doing, how their work and their lives have been affected and what we need to do going forward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Laboratorio COVID es un pódcast donde un equipo de analistas para el diagnóstico de la COVID19 abren las puertas de su laboratorio para explicar todo lo que ocurre dentro, con curiosidades, premios, anécdotas, noticias e incluso resolvemos las dudas que los oyentes nos formulan. Todo con el mejor de los ambientes. Deja una RESEÑA EN APPLE PODCASTS, UNA VALORACIÓN EN SPOTIFY y dale al ME GUSTA en iVOOX [expand title = PULSA-Y-DESPLIEGA-TODOS-LOS-EPISODIOS] [catlist id=554] [/expand] ¡GRACIAS! Podcaster: @DoctorGenoma Feed: https://rauldelapuente.com/laboratoriocovid/feed/ Ya disponible en...

Stories from the Pandemic.

Esta serie titulada “Ser Positivos Contra COVID, Experiencias en Ecuador” trata sobre las estrategias de afrontamiento empleadas por los profesionales sanitarios en Ecuador ante la situación de la pandemia por COVID-19.Recoge los testimonios de profesionales sanitarios en Ecuador narrando sus experiencias vividas en el contexto de presión asistencial durante la pandemia, poniendo el foco en las estrategias de afrontamiento utilizadas.Este proyecto ha sido subvencionado por la Universidad Miguel Hernández y la Generalitat Valenciana (Conv. GVA-UMH Solcif. 2020/0005). Hosted on Acast. See...

Genomic data scientist Dr. DJ Bandoy explains the research to help us understand what we need to know about COVID-19. COVID Corner is a segment of the Filipino news podcast Teka Teka by PumaPodcast. Ask DJ at askdocbandoy@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.