Scientific year in review

Year in review
Aims: To cover four key areas that were of particular importance in basic and translational lung research in 2020 and relate to the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the congress theme of digital health and COVID-19 diagnosis and vaccination.

Lung-directed CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing P. Harrison (Cork, Ireland)
The immune response to COVID-19 L. Vanderbeke (Leuven, Belgium)
Artificial intelligence in pulmonary medicine D. Khemasuwan (Henrico, United States of America)
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines: a step forward from traditional vaccines? M. Cavaleri (Amsterdam, Netherlands)