The coronavirus epidemic now racing across China is forcing Jeffrey Erlich, a Canadian neuroscientist at New York University Shanghai, to weigh his science against concern for his staff. Erlich performs animal experiments at coronavirus epidemic now racing a neighboring university; as part of efforts to control the illness, known as COVID-19, officials there have asked him to halt the studies and use as few staff as possible to take care of his animals. But he is training mice and other species on very complex tasks; the interruption could set him back 6 to 9 months. “It’s really hard balancing the research productivity of the lab and the safety and comfort of my staff,” he says. “When you’ve invested years of work into experiments, where do you draw the line about what’s considered essential?”
冠状病毒在中国迅速蔓延，迫使纽约大学上海分校的加拿大神经学家杰弗里·埃尔里奇权衡他的科学与对他的员工的担忧。埃尔里奇在冠状病毒流行病实验室进行动物实验，该实验室目前正在与附近的一所大学竞争；作为控制这种被称为COVID-19的疾病的努力的一部分，那里的官员已经要求他停止研究并尽可能少的使用工作人员来照顾他的动物。但是他正在训练老鼠和其他物种完成非常复杂的任务；中断可能会使他推迟6到9个月。“很难平衡实验室的研究效率和我的员工的安全和舒适，”他说。“当你把多年的工作投入到实验中时，你对什么是必要的有什么看法？”