
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was calming and restoring because the crush of global events continues unabated. Most likely, you anticipated this sort of thing, yes? To cope, as always, we are firing up the coffee kettle and brewing cups of stimulation. Our choice today is cinnamon vanilla nut. Meanwhile, here is a menu of tidbits to help you along on your own journey. Hope all goes well today and please do keep in touch.
Even as companies rush to develop and test vaccines against the new coronavirus, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are betting that scientists can do even better than what’s now in the pipeline, STAT explains. With Gates and NIH funding, the emerging field of synthetic biology is answering the SOS over Covid-19, aiming to engineer vaccines that overcome these obstacles.