Multiple COVID-19 vaccines are available, but some people are on the fence about getting their shot. Approaching a conversation with vaccine-hesitant friends and family may be challenging. Three scientists and public health experts spoke to more than 250 members during a Fearless Science Seminar Series.
Category: Advancement
New technology tracks role of macrophages in cancer spread
A Morgridge imaging study of macrophages — immune cells that are important to human health, but paradoxically can help some cancers grow and spread — is offering better ways to understand these cells and target them with immunotherapies.
‘Molecular Signature’ In Blood May Indicate Coronavirus Disease Severity
Researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research, Albany Medical Center, and UW–Madison assembled a profile of biological molecules that correlated not only with COVID-19 infection, but with disease severity. More target molecules will likely be found as others analyze the data, which is freely available online.
From the CEO: Trial, error and pandemics
The scientific community’s shift on wearing masks to fight the pandemic tells us something important about the scientific process. Science can get things wrong, but the constant push for new knowledge — combined with an ability to admit and correct mistakes — should always prevail.
In our post-COVID world, science must be our new frontier
Writing in The Hill, Morgridge CEO Dr. Brad Schwartz provides insight and context for scientific discovery as a foundation for economic prosperity. As the United States looks to science to help us get past the COVID-19 pandemic, we would be well advised to also look back.