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COVID-19 has emerged as a devastating pandemic of the century that the current generations have ever
experienced. The COVID-19 pandemic has infected more than 12 million people around the globe and 0.5 million people
have succumbed to death. Due to the lack of effective vaccines against the COVID-19, several nations throughout the globe
has imposed a lock-down as a preventive measure to lower the spread of COVID-19 infection. As a result of lock-down
most of the universities and research institutes has witnessed a long pause in basic science research ever. Much has been
talked about the long-term impact of COVID-19 in economy, tourism, public health, small and large-scale business of
several kind. However, the long-term implication of these research lab shutdown and its impact in the basic science research
has not been much focused. Herein, we provide a perspective that portrays a common problem of all the basic science
researchers throughout the globe and its long-term consequences.
Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound stimulates proliferation of stem/progenitor cells: what we need to know to translate basic science research into clinical applications
