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Steven Hester Category:  St. Andrew Parish opened the summer church for Easter Sunday services. Easter came early this year, and with it came hope for many of Block Island’s residents. Hope for a return to some sort of normalcy, as many people finally had a holiday with extended family. Hope that the cool temperatures are behind us and short pants are in our future. Hope that the sweet sounds of a thousand songbirds will continue to greet us each day. Hope that the water pipes we drained ourselves didn’t freeze and burst over the winter. And for the various faith communities on the islan...

Dear friends and visitors of Block Island: What a year! Disease and death in numbers we could not imagine. Thousands of front liners put their lives on the line to save and succor strangers. Tens of thousands of others put their lives and all those around them in danger of the virus and death by selfishly and deliberately ignoring the science and the minimal precautions. We lived through a year in which we witnessed the savagery of murders of our fellow citizens; the reaction of the outraged and the insurrection of our very democracy. Through it all, our neighbors and communities found millio...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA 6 scientists in Singapore who have pivoted to Covid-19 related work [The Straits Times, Singapore / Asia News Network] Dec. 14—SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN) — Meet six scientists in Singapore who have pivoted away from their areas of expertise to Covid-19 related work. Prof Stephan Schuster: Analysing air and surface samples to find virus traces Professor Stephan Schuster is an environmental detective. Like his crime-solving counterparts, the professor at the Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) School of Biological Sciences looks for what is unseen ...

Tapping his expertise in malaria research, Professor Peter Preiser of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) came up with a paper-strip test to detect proteins produced by the Sars-CoV-2 virus. The professor of molecular genetics and cell biology did this by adapting technology he had created to differentiate between types of malaria parasites, as he was keenly aware of the need for reliable diagnostics and rapid response in the Covid-19 crisis. The result is a cellulose-based test that is able to recognise Sars-CoV-2 proteins in a patient's blood sample. If the viral proteins are present, th...

Prof Stephan Schuster: Analysing air and surface samples to find virus traces PHOTO: NTU SINGAPORE Professor Stephan Schuster is an environmental detective. Like his crime-solving counterparts, the professor at the Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) School of Biological Sciences looks for what is unseen to the naked eye. This has come in useful during the Covid-19 pandemic, as humanity battles an invisible foe. His work involves taking samples from the air and surfaces, and analysing them to find traces of genetic material of organisms like viruses. Both environments are ultra-low biom...