No. 816: Good grief … COVID, monsters, A-bombs AND the end of summer?!?
Who’s counting: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and not just any Wednesday but the “last” Wednesday of the Summer of 2023 (there are technically three more before Fall, but…
Omicron
Two years in, still confronting big COVID questions
By TERRY LYNAM // Today, Feb. 11, marks the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 – at least, the anniversary of the World Health Organization giving the novel coronavirus a formal name….
Albany OKs Applied DNA’s rapid Omicron detector
By GREGORY ZELLER // With the novel coronavirus reestablishing its national dominance, the New York State Department of Health has wasted no time greenlighting a Long Island biotech’s next-generation COVID-detection…
Hochul tags unvaccinated as NY mask mandates return
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas 2020: With the omicron variant spreading and national COVID cases rising fast, Albany has reinstated public mask-wearing protocols….
With Omicron coming, Applied DNA steps up detection
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s most progressive biotechs has COVID-19’s frightening new variant dead in its sights. Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences has announced a “diagnostic strategy”…