On March 18, virologist Minal Dakhave Bhosale hit a major milestone. She and her colleagues submitted India’s first native COVID-19 diagnostic test for validation by the National Institute of Virology. Hours later, Bhosale achieved another milestone. She gave birth to a baby girl. Women in research are often overlooked but the Indian team was primarily female. … Continue reading Indian scientists record breaking efforts in developing COVID testing
Science loses a hero to COVID 19
Today, in The Scientist, we read of the death of biologist Lynika Strozier from complications of COVID 19. Ms. Strozier was 35 and was a biologist at Field Museum in Chicago. Such a loss to the scientific community, Ms. Strozier worked there as a research assistant in the Pritzker DNA Lab and worked on a … Continue reading Science loses a hero to COVID 19
Post II: 2020 pandemic, the view from an island
Post II: Technology and a pandemic: the view from Roanoke island June 14, 2020 – Endemic Realities, education in the day of COVID and at the end, a story of lost air pods: If the economics and inequities of 2020 do not interfere (and they always are present), our pandemic world will be stitched together … Continue reading Post II: 2020 pandemic, the view from an island
Post 1: 2020 A pandemic — the view from a small island
Changed Interiors This is the first of a series of posts as we have experienced the COVID 19 pandemic in the winter, spring and early summer months of 2020. Much written in the posts takes place on a tiny island on the coast of North Carolina as I am home-bound hiding from COVID 19—in an … Continue reading Post 1: 2020 A pandemic — the view from a small island
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