Science is Art is Science

A large group of clinical and basic scientists at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, is engaged in several activities related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

These include efforts to:

• Improve testing related to negative or inconclusive results.

• Precisely quantify the viral levels in patients as their disease progresses.

• Improve the care and therapies for COVID-19 patients.

• Determine factors that influence resistance to the disease or recovery.

• Identify social, biological and ecological factors that affect the rates of the disease in Central New York.

This summer, a lab at Upstate will become operational that will allow additional research to be safely conducted on COVID-19.

This image of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was produced in February on an electron microscope at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, using a sample from a patient in the United States.

Spikes on the surface of coronaviruses give the virus family its name. Corona is Latin for “crown.” u

A microscopic look at the novel coronavirus, from a sample from a patient in the United States.

IMAGE OF CORONAVIRUS COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIAID