Professor Michael Seeger, Academic of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María and director of the PhD in Biotechnology of the USM and PUCV, publishes in El Mercurio de Valparaíso the column Science for development. In it he refers to the fact that in October we are celebrating Science Month, and the current Covid-19 pandemic has shown the relevance of this field, for example, in the detection of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, the development of vaccines, the study of the impact of the pandemic on public health, mental health and society. How much science does Chile need? You can review the column in this
