1. Basic and applied science at the time of COVID-19
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Raffaele Porta, Martino Bolognesi, Mauro Magnani, Francesca Cutruzzolà, Eugenio Monti, Nazzareno Capitanio, Daniele Condorelli, Fulvio Della Ragione, Luca Federici, Gianfranco Gilardi, Silvana Hrelia, Antonio Lucacchini, Annalisa Santucci, Claudia Martini, Rosario Ammendola, Vittorio Bellotti, Saverio Bettuzzi, Donatella Caruso, Mauro Maccarrone, Alberto Passi, Luigi Palmieri, Margherita Ruoppolo, Porta R., Bolognesi M., Magnani M., Cutruzzolà F., Monti E., Capitani, N., Condorelli D., Della Ragione F., Federici L., Gilardi G., Hrelia S., Lucacchini, A., Santucci A., Martini C., Ammendola R., Bellotti V., Bettuzzi S., Caruso D., Maccarrone M., Passi A., Palmieri L., Ruoppolo M., Porta, Raffaele, Bolognesi, Martino, Magnani, Mauro, Cutruzzolà, Francesca, Monti, Eugenio, Capitanio, Nazzareno, Condorelli, Daniele, Della Ragione, Fulvio, Federici, Luca, Gilardi, Gianfranco, Hrelia, Silvana, Lucacchini, Antonio, Santucci, Annalisa, Martini, Claudia, Ammendola, Rosario, Bellotti, Vittorio, Bettuzzi, Saverio, Caruso, Donatella, Maccarrone, Mauro, Passi, Alberto, Palmieri, Luigi, and Ruoppolo, Margherita
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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,Biomedical Research ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Biophysics ,Public confidence ,no key words ,Biochemistry ,COVID-19, research ,03 medical and health sciences ,Structural Biology ,Development economics ,Genetics ,Humans ,Economic impact analysis ,Molecular Biology ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,research ,SARS-CoV-2 ,030302 biochemistry & molecular biology ,COVID-19 ,Cell Biology ,New disease ,Psychology - Abstract
During the last 6 months, the world has been unsettled by the diffusion of a virus that has peculiar properties, causing alarm not only for the direct pathologic effect of the virus on affected individuals, but, mostly, for its only partially clarified ways of propagation [[1, 2]]. The medical, social, and economic impact of the new disease is extraordinary and also deeply touches our ethical and moral values. The public confidence in science is perturbed because the medical response is dominated by uncertainty, and the requests to science for a fast remedy are left unmet
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- 2020