The identification and isolation of individuals with COVID-19 can help to flatten the epidemic curve and win us time to wait for the vaccine development and production and antiviral drug therapies (this is the Nature Nano editorial for the April issue which will be published in the next few days).

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Meet our authors from RIKEN Bioresource Research Center, Meijo University, and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan to learn about their fascinating invention for improving pluripotent stem cell culturing.