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July 9, 2020

Video: Here's what could make your homemade mask work as well as an N95

How do you make a mask as effective as the N95 respirators used by healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients?

Northeastern researchers sought solutions from materials that are available to the public.

Provided by Northeastern University

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Video: Here's what could make your homemade mask work as well as an N95

New vaccine could protect against coronaviruses that haven't even emerged yet

Study links organization of neurotypical brains to genes involved in autism and schizophrenia

Study traces an infectious language epidemic

Visual experiences unique to early infancy provide building blocks of human vision, study finds

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Reusable respirators may be a suitable alternative to disposable respirators

Emergency measure will get more respirators to U.S. health care workers

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