Conveners
Technologies: Other than Clinical Imaging
- Mauro Grigioni (ISS)
In recent years, three different coronaviruses (MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2), posed a grave threat to the global public health, security and economy. All these RNA viruses present a similar surface structure characterized by Spike Glycoproteins (S) having a key role in viral pathogenesis. The S proteins protrude from the surface of mature virion (see Fig. 1), and are responsible for...
According to the latest US CDC declarations, Covid infection is largely transmitted by air and not -as previously supposed- by touching objects “polluted” by others. Thus, at least in public gatherings, we should focus more on cleaning the air surrounding participants rather than on disinfecting objects in contact with them. A low-cost method to accomplish it consists in beaming signals at...
