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Abstract The recent outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is now officially declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. As of now, there is no known effective pharmaceutical agent against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, several precautionary measures have been prescribed to prevent further spread of the virus, which include avoidance of social gatherings, proper handwashing, frequently disinfecting of used items and surfaces and so on. More recent studies have highlighted the possibility of treating patients infected with the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus with chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, of which mechanism of action is not completely understood. We seek to draw...

A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says Durdu Guney, make ultra-high-resolution microscopes as commonplace as cameras in our cell phones.No one has yet made a superlens, also known as a perfect lens, though people are trying. Optical lenses are limited by the nature of light, the so-called diffraction limit, so even the best won’t usually let us see objects smaller than 200 nanometers across, about the size of the smallest bacterium. Scanning electron microscopes can capture objects that are much smaller,...

One thing that's still right about college football: Michigan Tech 11/11/2004, 6:58 p.m. ET By JIM LITKE The Associated Press (AP) — There isn't enough room on a page to catalog everything that's gone wrong with big-time college football. But two words are enough to describe everything that's still right about the game at the lower levels: Michigan Tech. The small engineering school seeded No. 1 as the NCAA Division II playoffs begin this weekend is stocked with athletes who really are students. Founded in 1920, the program boasts a 100 percent graduation rate and the current team's grade-point average...