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COVID-19 positives in Nebraska are climbing with the Omicron variant making up a majority of the cases in the state.

“I think it’s working” was the cautious wording of his message. Schoof, a graduate student in the lab of Peter Walter, PhD, a renowned scientist specializing in protein sorting and cellular membranes, was part of a small team on a quixotic mission: to immobilize SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID, by using a synthetic version of tiny antibodies originally discovered in llamas and camels. These “nanobodies,” as they’re known, had come from the UC San Francisco lab of Aashish Manglik, MD, PhD, an up-and-coming protein scientist who had spent the previous three years...

A look at where we started and how far we’ve come following the unprecedented mobilization of the health and research enterprise against a devastating pandemic. 2020 began on an ominous note, as California and the rest of the United States watched from afar while a mysterious respiratory illness made its way through China. Individuals video-conferencing from quarantine, community shutdowns and high-tech contact tracing to find the virus before it could infect someone else: Surely, it would somehow be contained before it happened here? Yet just a few short months later, the virus overtook t...