If you were a medical researcher studying infectious disease three months ago and you had an idea for a project, getting that project funded, off the ground, in the lab, and in a journal would have taken you many, many months. Chances are, you’d see your work in a peer-reviewed publication not until this summer or even a year later.One of the more uplifting developments of the bleak past several weeks has been witnessing science rise to the occasion in the face of coronavirus. As the virus has spread across the globe, scientific research has sped up to keep pace with it. The urgency of coronavirus has jolted scientific research, normally a sclerotic process. Studies that once took months to execute and get to the public now take weeks, even days. In the process, we’ve been given a glimpse of what science might look like after the pandemic.How is the new, faster science manifesting itself? Use of preprint servers — where scientists post research that has not yet been peer...
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