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Testing for the Corona Virus

The biological medium utilized by detection device can greatly dictate the robustness of a COVID test. Which medium is better: nasopharyngeal fluid or sweat? Dr.Krubaugh and Dr.Ko delve into this question in their correspondence letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.

Elon Musk makes breakthrough with Neuralinks neural implant

Neuralinks has a goal to build a device capable of interfacing the human brain with AI. His company has made some critical breakthroughs with their recently developed neural implant, which can transmit neural activity without requiring an external hardware device.

The Woes of Gilead

Gilead took charge of verifying the effectiveness of the antiviral drug remdesvir in speeding up the recovery of COVID-19 patients. However, the companies stock market value has depreciated by 11 percent in just the past month as recent studies suggest remdesivir is not as clinically effective as it was once thought to be.