Four tightly closed doors protect the Entomological Collection of ETH Zurich from heat and daylight. Upon their return from the Czech Republic, they were first placed in a four-week quarantine...
Karthish Manthiram, the Theodore T. Miller Career Development Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been honored as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, an award that recognizes and supports the research and...
The second week of gestation represents a critical stage of embryo development, or embryogenesis. The pre-implantation period, before the developing embryo implants into the mother’s womb, has been studied extensively...
But manufacturing those drugs for clinical trials often involves international partners and supply chains. From there it seeks to automate production processes, often lessening the number of steps it takes...
Starlink is among a handful of global satellite networks currently in development (though not without controversy, due to effects on our view of the night sky). Now researchers in MIT’s...
U.S. hospitals began treating COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma therapy—which uses antibody-rich blood from recovered COVID-19 patients—in the summer of 2020 when doctors were looking to identify treatments for the...
Previous studies in non-hospitalised COVID-19 patients have shown that the treatment reduces viral load, shortens the time to resolution of symptoms, and significantly reduces the risk of hospitalisation or death....
16 June 2021Bacteria used to clean diesel-polluted soil in GreenlandEnvironment Diesel-polluted soil from now defunct military outposts in Greenland can be remediated using naturally occurring soil bacteria according to an...
Strikingly, these individuals were twice as likely to report that they were COVID-19 vaccine hesitant – that is, they would put off getting vaccinated or indeed never get the jab....
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our world in powerful ways, from improving medical care and changing the retail landscape to enabling convenient features on our smartphones. “This fellowship and award...