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Rutgers Protein Data Banks Helps in Fight Against Coronavirus
The New York Times Article, "Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome" references a model produced by Maria Voigt, of RCSB Protein Data Bank headquartered at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. The globally unique data bank – the first open-access,...
What needs to happen before your boss can make you return to work
There are few worse spots to be during a historic pandemic than a bustling workplace. They're rife with shared door handles, shared bathrooms, shared fridges, shared desks, shared elevators, shared coffee, shared scissors, and inevitably, shared microbes. Right now,...
Rutgers School of Nursing to Graduate Students Early
The school will graduate roughly 350 senior nursing students on May 1, joining a trend of academic institutions supporting the fight against COVID-19. “In this unprecedented moment, we encourage our graduates to move forward in their careers in ways that are most...
NJIT Designers Fabricate Masks, Shields and Swabs to Battle COVID-19
As emergency response teams in the region scramble to acquire dwindling medical supplies to combat the surge in COVID-19 (coronavirus) infections, diverse members of the NJIT community – from engineers to physicists to advanced manufacturing specialists to students –...
Ethics and Evidence in the Search for a Vaccine and Treatments for COVID-19
There is mounting interest for researchers to start conducting studies with humans as soon as possible to find a vaccine and therapeutic treatments that are safe and effective, write Hastings Center research scholars Karen Maschke and Michael Gusmano, who also is an...
Rutgers Creates COVID-19 Center to Fight Pandemic
Rutgers has created a new center to coordinate the university’s myriad research and public health and outreach efforts to combat COVID-19. Read the Full Article.
New coronavirus test with results in 45 minutes exceeds expectations, Rutgers says.
Rutgers researchers are testing a new, much fasterCOVID-19 test that could revolutionize the way medical personnel test for the coronavirus. Read the Full Article.
What Are We Going to Do About Structural Inequities Highlighted by Pandemic?
The pandemic is just starting to be examined through a racial-equity lens, write Nancy Cantor and Peter Englot, the chancellor and senior vice chancellor for public affairs, respectively, at Rutgers University–Newark. The disparate effects on health, jobs, housing,...