Vol. 4 No. 1 (2020): Special Issue: The COVID-19 Epidemic

Organisms: Journal of Biological Sciences, Special Issue: The COVID-19 Epidemic, Vol, 4, No. 1

Published: 2020-08-19

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Editorial

What We Have Learned and What We Still Do Not Know about COVID-19

5-7
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Letters

Safety of Hydroxychloroquine in Patients with COVID-19: The Experience in the District of Piacenza, Preliminary Data

Luigi Cavanna, Gabriele Cremona, Lara Muroni, Camilla Di Nunzio

8-10
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The Relevance of Epigenetics in the SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Disease

Andrea Fuso, Tiziana Raia

11-14
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Commentaries

The Claude Bernard and Conrad Waddington Legacy: Homeostasis, When Observed for a Very Long Time, is Homeoresis

Alessandro Giuliani

15-16
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Yes, U.S. Farmer Suicide is Significantly Higher Than the National Average

Sara Bissen

17-25
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Reviews

Fibrosis: A Role for Vitamin D

Noemi Monti, Alessandra Cucina

26-41
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Experimental Studies

Mesoscopic Cell Mechanobiology and the Problem of Cancer

Oleg B. Naimark, Yuri V. Bayandin, Victoria V. Grishko, Alexander S. Nikitiuk

42-56
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Does Evolution Have a Target Morphology?

Chris Fields, Michael Levin

57-76
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Stochastic or Deterministic? That is the Question

Andras Paldi

77-79
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A Probabilistic Theory for Cell Differentiation, Embryonic Mortality and DNA C-value Paradox

Jean-Jacques Kupiec

80-85
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Methods and Techniques

A Challenging Task—How to Successfully Separate Theca and Granulosa Cells: A Mandatory Step for Investigating Ovary Steroidogenesis

Valeria Fedeli, Noemi Monti, Rita Canipari

86-89
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Perspectives and Hypotheses

Science as Magic

Alex Gomez-Marin, Luis M Martínez, Jordi Camí

90-101
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Issue

Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold

Mariano Bizzarri

102-112
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Thinking Beyond the “Epidemic of Epidemics”

Giuseppe Longo

113-114
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COVID-19 Calls for Mathematics, Part 1: Neuraminidase Inhibitors, Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine

Corrado Mascia, Veronica Paparozzi, Angelica Ragni, Elisa Scanu, Chiara Simeoni, Elisa Tomellini

115-127
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COVID-19 Calls for Mathematics, Part 2: Interleukin IL-6 and Myo-Inositol, Suicide-substrate Enzyme Inhibitors

Corrado Mascia, Paolo Bernuzzi, Rachele Esposito, Alessandra Massimi, Francesca Pallicca, Alessio Sanna, Chiara Simeoni

128-139
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History and Science

When Politics Freed Science from Task Force Impositions

Andrea Pensotti

140-143
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Art, Plague and Fear

Dalmazio Frau

144-154
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News in Focus

EGOI is Taking Off

The Editorial Board The Editorial Board

155-156
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Books

Pharmacology Studies: Hints for a Change in the Paradigm

157-159
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Info

A Manifesto from the “Gravity Center”: Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy

160-167
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