Jennifer Frazier has launched a new series called COVID Conversations on Wednesdays, focusing on topics the public cares about. CCC faculty and themes will be highlighted. More information can be found here. The first COVID Conversation is scheduled for Wednesday, May...

Simone Bianco's lab (IBM) has developed a mathematical model for predicting the effect of removing non-pharmaceutical interventions (i.e. social distancing) on the spread of COVID-19 as a function of testing rates. The article explains that, given asymptomatic...

Wilfred Denetclaw (SFSU) is researching how the pandemic is affecting the Navajo Nation and New Mexico, and trying to help with communication on the science to the Navajo People in the Navajo Nation and outreach to limit the spread of the virus. The Navajo Nation...

Dan Fletcher is working with Melanie Ott (Gladstone/UCSF) on the development of a Coronavirus point-of-care Cas13-based assay for direct viral RNA detection. The device is built around Fletcher's CellScope-based fluorescence microscopy system and is designed to go...

The Marshall lab is modeling how the novel coronavirus interacts with the host cell defense systems.

Shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), including medical N95 masks, are forcing hospitals, care centers, and first responders across the country to, in some cases, reuse their limited supply of these critical resources during this unprecedented COVID-19...

Read about the work in Manu Prakash's lab to develop personal protective equipment from diving gear and plumbing supplies here. In addition to the snorkel mask PPE, his lab is helping develop a machine that can take waste styrofoam and quickly spin it, like cotton...