New COVID Spit Tests May Be More Accurate and Easier Than Nasal Swabs

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March 28, 2022

Public Health New COVID Spit Tests May Be More Accurate and Easier Than Nasal Swabs Saliva PCR tests may detect disease earlier in the course of an infection By Anthony Warmack

Biotech This Mushroom Leather Is Being Made into Hermès Handbags A bioreactor-made material is being marketed as an animal-friendly leather alternative that also aims to help save the planet By Emily Waltz,Nature Biotechnology

Sports The 'Hot Hand' Is a Real Basketball Phenomenon, But It Is Rare A statistcal analysis finds evidence for shooting streaks in real game situations By Konstantinos Pelechrinis,Wayne Winston,The Conversation US

Mathematics Virtuoso Mathematician Who Reshaped Topology Wins Abel Prize Dennis Sullivan's work has advanced the study of shapes, and he developed tools that have helped to solve many mathematical problems By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Medicine Can Drugs Reduce the Risk of Long COVID? What Scientists Know So Far Researchers are trying to establish whether existing COVID-19 vaccines and treatments can prevent lasting symptoms By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Anthropology Anthropology Association Apologizes to Native Americans for the Field's Legacy of Harm For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history By Rachel Parsons

Psychology To Fight Bias, Consider Highlighting Your Race or Gender When networking, women and people in racial and ethnic minority groups can benefit from calling out their identity By Erika Kirgios,Aneesh Rai,Edward Chang,Katy Milkman

Space Exploration COVID Disrupted Everything--Even Rocket Launches Surprising supply chain breakdowns By Tory Bruno

Inequality The Pandemic Deepened Fault Lines in American Society COVID energized the Black Lives Matter movement—and provoked a dangerous backlash By Aldon Morris

Policy COVID Pushed Global Health Institutions to Their Limits The need to reinvent the World Health Organization has become abundantly clear By Lawrence O. Gostin

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Making COVID Tests Better at Detecting Infectious People Scientists are debating whether to use a little-known measure to determine who is truly contagious. The NFL is already using it By Rae Ellen Bichell,Kaiser Health News | March 2022

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