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S5e3: Can Physics Help Combat Covid-19?, Ron Lisnet, Samuel T. Hess
S5e3: Can Physics Help Combat Covid-19?, Ron Lisnet, Samuel T. Hess
The Maine Question
Numerous medical professionals, biologists and other experts have been combating COVID-19 and the havoc it has wrought since the pandemic began. Physicists have also joined the fray, including one from the University of Maine.
The invention of a new microscope allows Sam Hess, a professor of physics at UMaine, to obtain new insight into the structure of the virus that causes COVID-19 — SARS-COV-2 — and the influenza virus. These findings could help pave the way for effective treatments.
In this episode of “The Maine Question,” Hess discusses the development of this breakthrough in microscope technology and his decades-long quest …