Rita dos Santos Silva
I joined United Academics team in 2015, during my Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences, at the VU Amsterdam. By that time, I was starting to realize that, more than planning scientific experiments, I was interested in understanding how science evolved and where it is going. After joining United Academics, it became clearer that open access must be the path for science advancement. In 2016, I became United Academics's editor-in-chief.
Covid-19 peak in Belgium has passed, health officials say
Belgium will begin to ease lockdown restrictions, as the number of new hospital admissions due to Covid-19 continues to go down. Last Sunday, 232 people...
Study Reveals Geographic Differences in the SARS-CoV-2 Genomes
Bioinformatic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 reveals several variations between the genomes of SARS-CoV-2 from Italy, India, Nepal and USA, and the SARS-CoV-2 originated from Wuhan....
Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 Does Not Occur in Rhesus Monkeys
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has caused more than 170,000 cases of infection worldwide, and its death toll continues to rise. Meanwhile,...
Coronavirus Update: 100,000 Infected, More Than Half Recovered
Situation report
100,686 infections (80,573 Mainland China; 6,593 South Korea; 4,747 Iran; 3,858 Italy)
55,753 recoveries
3,411 deaths
Source: Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at...
The Strange Case of the Man Who Didn’t Drink Alcohol But Often Appeared Drunk
Patient X had been a healthy man. He was in his forties, with no medical or psychiatric episodes, and lived a normal life, until...
Thai Doctors Use Anti-HIV and Anti-flu Drugs to Treat Patients with Coronavirus Infection
Thai doctors are using a combination of anti-flu and anti-HIV drugs to treat patients infected with coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
The Asteroid Triggered the Mass Extinction. Volcanism Shaped Life Afterwards, According to a New Study
The Chicxulub asteroid that collided with the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, and not volcanoes, drove the mass extinction that killed non-avian dinosaurs 66 million...
10 January 1947| Stanford Scientists Isolate Polio Virus
On this day, 73 years ago, two scientists from Stanford University, U.S., announced the first successful isolation of the poliovirus.
Hubert Loring, associate professor at...
Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa is Higher than Previously Reported
Thirty-nine percent of rural households in Sub-Saharan Africa have severe difficulties in accessing food, according to a large survey of over six thousand sub-Saharan...
New Sensor Detects Unattended Children in Cars
A new sensor detects, with extreme accuracy, the presence of occupants in a vehicle. A team from the University of Waterloo, Canada, developed the low-cost,...