2020–2029
127 entries with publication dates in this decade.
2020 CE
#12511
A literary history of medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Edited and translated, with essays, by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain, and Geert Jan van Gelder. With Ignacio Sánchez, N. Peter Joosse, Alasdair Watson, Bruce Inksetter, and Franak Hilloowala. 5 vols.
In addition to the printed version, Brill.com hosts an Open Access version of the text at scholarlyeditions.brill.com/ihom/.
2020 CE
#11876
A bacteriophage nucleus like compartment shields DNA from CRISPR nucleases.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mendoza, Nieweglowska, Govindarajan. The authors showed that the large phage that specifically infects a Pseudomonas bacterium segregates its DNA, which the phage CRISP…
2020 CE
#12179
A companion to Byzantine science. Edited by Stavros Lazaris.
Chapters relevant to this bibliography include: Zoology by Arnaud Zucker Botany by Alain Touwaide Medicine and Pharmacy by Alain Touwaide Veterinary Medicine by Stavros Lazaris Byzantine Theories of Vision by Katerina…
2020 CE
#12119
A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wu, Zhao...Holmes, Zang. This was the first paper written in China, and published in a Western language, on the first COVID-19 patient admitted to any Wuhan hospital on…
2020 CE
#12074
A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin.
This article was published in Nature on 3 February 2020. Prior to that a version with a different title and numerous other co-authors was published in bioRxiv on 23 January 2020, as "Discovery of a novel coronavirus a…
2020 CE
#12596
A sensory appendage protein protects malaria vectors from pyrethroids.
Researching how the malarial mosquito A. gambiae developed resistance to common pyrethroid insecticides, the authors discovered how natural selection had enabled this insect population to develop resistance. They anal…
2020 CE
#13282
A vision of hope: The 200-year history of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary 1820-2020.
2020 CE
#13537
Abortion in America and the law in America: Roe v. Wade to the present.
2020 CE
#12062
An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30120-1 "During the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Gardner recognised that the public, researchers and health authorities needed clear, accessible and up-to-date information.…
2020 CE
#12627
Appetite and its discontents: Science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1850.
2020 CE
#12156
Archiving web content on the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19).
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/03/26/archiving-web-content-on-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19/ "The National Library of Medicine is archiving web and social media documenting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbr…
2020 CE
#11877
Clades of huge phages from across Earth's ecosystems.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Al-Shayeb, Sachdeva, Chen.... Doudna. Open access, available from nature.com at this link. This paper was a collaboration of about 50 scientists of diverse regions and …
2020 CE
#13039
Clean: The new science of skin.
"A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin…
2020 CE
#12105
Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus,and early Homo erectus in South Africa.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Herries, Martin, Leece....Menter. Summary: "Understanding the extinction of Australopithecus and origins of Paranthropus and Homo in South Africa has been hampered by t…
2020 CE
#12013
Continual raving: A history of meningitis and the people who conquered it.
2020 CE
#13519
Correspondence. Transmission of 2019 nCoV infection from an asymptomatic contact in Germany.
Posted online 1-30-20, updated 2-6-20, and published in print on March 5, 2020. First report of the "asymptomatic transmission" of Covid-19. The authors wrote, “The fact that asymptomatic persons are potential s…
2020 CE
#13520
Covid-19 and Kawasaki disease: Novel virus and novel case.
Published online 4-7-20; in print in June, 2020. First case report of what became known as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), sometimes present with Kawasaki disease. This is one of the worst compl…
2020 CE
#12190
Covid-19 changed how the world does science, together. Never before, scientists say, have so many of the world's researchers focused so urgently on a single topic. Nearly all other research has ground to a halt.
April 1, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/world/europe/coronavirus-science-research-cooperation.html "Using flag-draped memes and military terminology, the Trump administration and its Chinese counterparts hav…
2020 CE
#12186
COVID-19 COMPILER. MAP
https://covid19.topos.com/ "COVID-19 Compiler aims to display relevant data about the novel coronavirus outbreak in the United States. "Our goal is to provide a multidimensional view of covid-19’s impact in coun…
2020 CE
#13484
COVID-19 vaccine development and a potential nanomaterial path forward.
Published 15 July 2020. Order of authorship in original publication: Shin, Shukla, Chung....Steinmetz. Probably the first publication on the type of nanotechnology involved in production of the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA…
2020 CE
#13483
Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation.
Posted online on February 17, 2020. 2019-nCoV was an interim name for the Novel Coronavirus. These studies, which included the 3D structure of the RBD (receptor binding domain) within the S protein, provided informati…
2020 CE
#13703
Dark archives: A librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin.
2020 CE
#12181
Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications.
"Abstract "Neanderthals are often considered as less technologically advanced than modern humans. However, we typically only find faunal remains or stone tools at Paleolithic sites. Perishable materials, comprising th…
2020 CE
#13124
Diseases in the district of Maine 1772-1820. The unpublished work of Jeremiah Barker, a rural physician in New England, by Richard J. Kahn.
2020 CE
#12590
Disibility in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry.
2020 CE
#13479
Distinct viral reservoirs in individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1.
The authors describe a mechanism for the observed natural viral "immunity" of individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1. A very few exceptional people have the molecular ability to steer the incoming/infecting cel…
2020 CE
#12157
Documenting COVID-19, [a collaborative document.]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v5tso8spFq6SpW53h2OJULcdRoPEbyI6xpah31kW-H0/edit [I copied this document into this database on April 9, 2020.] "Documenting COVID-19 "https://bit.ly/doc-covid19 #doccovid19 This is …
2020 CE
#13012
Exploring Greek manuscripts in the library at Wellcome Collection in London. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos.
2020 CE
#14154
Fevers, feuds, and diamonds: Ebola and the ravages of history.
"Farmer first visited the Western African Ebola virus epidemic site in July 2014, and much of the book is devoted to his personal experiences. Reviewing the outbreak in 2020, he noted that there were almost no Ebola d…
2020 CE
#12073
First case of 2019 novel coronavirus in the United States.
Published on March 5, 2020. Order of authorship in the original publication: Holshue, DeBolt, Lindquist....Cohn. "Summary "An outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that began in Wuhan, China, has spread rapidly, w…
2020 CE
#13092
Forbidden knowledge: Medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy.
2020 CE
#12602
Future of the human climate niche.
Significance "We show that for thousands of years, humans have concentrated in a surprisingly narrow subset of Earth’s available climates, characterized by mean annual temperatures around ∼13 °C. This di…
2020 CE
#13497
Galen: A thinking doctor in Imperial Rome
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
A very readable and relatively brief, but comprehensive, biography. The appendix provides a complete list of Galen's works with their titles in Latin, also in English translation, correlated to the best editions and t…
2020 CE
#12466
Georges Cuvier’s historical portrait of the progress of ichthyology, from Its origins to our own time. Second edition, revised and enlarged, edited and annotated by T. W. Pietsch, translated from the French by A. J. Simpson.
2020 CE
#13670
Global health and the new world order: Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell, Laurent Pordié and David Cantor.
2020 CE
#12182
Harnessing wearable device data to improve state-level real-time surveillance of influenza-like illness in the USA: A population-based study.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Radin, Wineinger, Topol, Steinhubl. "Background "Acute infections can cause an individual to have an elevated resting heart rate (RHR) and change their routine daily ac…
2020 CE
#13517
Hearing happiness: Deafness cures in history.
2020 CE
#12093
How Twitter is changing medical research.
"From online journal clubs to 'tweetorials' to conference updates, social media is changing the dissemination and discussion of biomedicine." Open access from nature.com at this link. Reprinted by scientificamerican.c…
2020 CE
#12512
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah, Anecdotes and antidotes: A medieval Arabic history of physicians. A new translation. Translated by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain et al. Selected and edited by Henrietta Sharp Cockrell, with introduction by Geert Jan van Gelder. [Oxford World’s Classics].
2020 CE
#12100
IHME COVID-19 health service utilization forecasting team. Forecasting COVID-19 impact on hospital bed-days, ICU-days, ventilator days and deaths by US state in the next 4 months.
This paper was published online on March 26, 2020 and updated periodically. When I added it to this database on April 2, 2020 it had been updated on March 31, 2020. At that time the paper was available from healthdata…
2020 CE
#13106
Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Senior, Evans, Jumper. ABSTRACT: "Protein structure prediction can be used to determine the three-dimensional shape of a protein from its amino acid sequence. This problem is…
2020 CE
#13668
In the shadow of Vesalius: An exciting series of new insights into life and work of Andreas Vesalius and his friends. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.
2020 CE
#12117
Infectious mononucleosis diagnosed by Downey cells: Sometimes the old ways are better.
The Downey cell method for the diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis remains effective and cost-effective nearly 100 years after it was discovered: "An 18-year-old woman visited her physician because she had a fever, …
2020 CE
#12309
Innovation in Byzantine medicine: The writings of John Zacharias Aktourarios (c. 1275- c. 1330)
2020 CE
#12302
Isolation of an archeon at the prokaryote eukaryote interface.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Imachi, Nobu, Nakahara...Takai.) The authors report that after 12 years of research they have cultured a microorganism that may be the transitional species between pro…
2020 CE
#13128
Maimonides, commentary on Hippocrates’ aphorisms: a new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos. 2 vols. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vols. 14.1, 14.2.)
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
"Hippocrates’ Aphorisms enjoyed great popularity in the ancient and medieval world and, according to Maimonides, it was Hippocrates’ most useful work as it contained aphorisms, which every physician should…
2020 CE
#13132
Maimonides, Medical aphorisms, Hebrew translation by Nathan ha-Me'ati. Edited by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vol. 15.)
"The original Arabic text of Maimonides’ major medical work, Medical Aphorisms, was critically edited and translated into English by Gerrit Bos in the years 2004-2017, and published in earlier volumes of the boo…
2020 CE
#13310
Maimonides, Medical aphorisms, Hebrew translation by R. Zerahyah ben Isaac ben She'altiel Hen
2020 CE
#13454
Marwān ibn Janāh, on the nomenclature of medicinal drugs (Kitāb al-Talkhīs). Edition, translation and commentary with special reference to the Ibero-Romance terminology
"In early eleventh century Zaragoza, the eminent Jewish scholar Abū l-Walīd Marwān ibn Janāḥ wrote a glossary containing almost 1100 entries, entitled Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ. This important text, considered lost until recen…
2020 CE
#12537
Mesopotamian eye disease texts: The Nineveh treatise.
"This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is pr…