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S2e16: What Can We Learn From Ums Experts About Coronavirus?, Ron Lisnet Jun 2020

S2e16: What Can We Learn From Ums Experts About Coronavirus?, Ron Lisnet

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How does the University of Maine System stay up to date with breaking COVID-19 developments involving testing, treatments, transmission mitigation, contact tracing and vaccine development? It turns to its experts on the UMS Scientific Advisory Board.


S2e7: Why Do Viruses Go Viral?, Ron Lisnet, Melissa Maginnis Apr 2020

S2e7: Why Do Viruses Go Viral?, Ron Lisnet, Melissa Maginnis

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The novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has led to a pandemic that swept the globe, halted economies and upended life as we know it. How and why infections like this occur is something that Melissa Maginnis, an assistant professor of microbiology at UMaine, thinks about every day. How do viruses work? How and why do they go viral? What is the best way to stop their spread and how might scientists learn from this ordeal? That and more on this episode of The Maine Question