Issue # 298 _ December 2020
Cover
- Vaccines edge closer
- Early test results indicate that four vaccines with various dosing schedules provided protection against COVID-19 in adults, with efficacy levels ranging from 62% to 95% By Ricardo Zorzetto
- Back to school?
- Obstacles to resuming classroom teaching caused by the worsening pandemic, problems with mass testing, and behavior outside school By Fabrício Marques
- The pandemic detectives
- Health professionals use a variety of methods and instruments to follow the trail of the novel coronavirus and to try to contain the epidemic By Frances Jones
- Welcome voices
- Pandemic leads to greater communication between doctors, scientists, and the general public By Carlos Fioravanti
- “I began valuing my personal relationships more during the pandemic”
- By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade
- “When I woke up, it was wonderful to realize that I was still alive.”
- By Sarah Schmidt
Open science
A laptop in hand, a project in mind
Virtual hackathon explores ways to share data and use technology to improve the quality of research
By Fabrício MarquesGender
A field of hurdles
New study explores obstacles to patenting by women, and how to remove them
By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade
Biometrics
Security at your fingertips
Curitiba-based company registers the fingerprints of newborn babies using 100% Brazilian technology
By Tiago Jokura
