Conversations with scientists

Long-COVID is rough on many people who have happily recovered from COVID-19. Dr. Terina Martinez, a field application scientist at Taconic Biosciences talks about the challenges of modeling this condition.

Show Notes

COVID-19 has been bad. Many, likely millions of people, who have survived their COVID-battle, face a difficult array of symptoms. Breathing problems, joint pain, heart palpitations, brain fog are a few of them. This is part 3 of a three-part podcast series on long-COVID. This episode is a conversation with Dr. Terina Martinez, a field application scientist at Taconic Biosciences, which develops and sells mouse models. She talks about the challenges and possibilities of modeling long-COVID. There is also an article in Nature Methods to go along with this podcast series. 

What is Conversations with scientists?

Scientists talk about what they do and why they do what they do. Their motivations, their trajectory, their setbacks, their achievements. They offer their personal take on science, mentoring and the many aspects that have shaped their work and their lives. Hosted by journalist Vivien Marx. Her work has appeared in Nature journals, Science, The Economist, The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe and New Scientist among others. (Art: Justin Jackson)