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Scripps researchers tap wearable data to track Covid-19 and flu

Scripps Research launched a new study to see if data collective from wearable devices could be used to track flu-like illnesses, including Covid-19. In January, Scripps published a retrospective study using a similar methodology showing that sleep and resting heart rate data from Fitbits were correlated with the number of patients reporting influenza-like illness.  

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Researchers crowdfunding to help fund Ebola sample analysis

Researcher Erica Ollmann Saphire is getting sent Ebola samples faster than she can process them at her Scripps Research Institute lab, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports, so she’s turned to crowdfunding to raise the $100,000 she needs to buy better instruments. Saphire’s behind the global consortium of researchers that developed the experimental ZMapp serum, the drug […]

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