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Sustainability is a high priority on campus

Feb 24, 2021

This is stipulated in DTU’s sustainability policy, and—since 2018—it has been a requirement for all new buildings that they must be planned and constructed in accordance with the DGNB Gold...

Metabolic mutations help bacteria resist drug treatment

Feb 24, 2021

Other resistance mutations allow bacteria to break down antibiotics or pump them out through their cell membranes. MIT researchers have now identified another class of mutations that helps bacteria develop...

Anthony Fauci: Trump Contributed to Covid Death Toll

Feb 23, 2021

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been reluctant to blame former President Donald Trump for how the coronavirus devastated the United States so badly, but he said Tuesday that the former president’s...

Scientists launch a pre-emptive strike on deadly post-transplant infection

Feb 23, 2021

Around 80% of the UK population is currently infected with human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and in developing countries this can be as high as 95%. But, for people who are immunocompromised,...

"Good bacteria" in breast milk changes over time

Feb 23, 2021

The cocktail of beneficial bacteria passed from mother to infant through breast milk changes significantly over time and could act like a daily booster shot for infant immunity and metabolism....

Debate heats up over vaccinating more people with just one dose

Feb 23, 2021

Debate is intensifying over the idea of accelerating the U.S. vaccination campaign by giving people just one dose instead of two for the time being. It has also gained ground...

Axios-Ipsos poll: 1 in 3 Americans know someone who died from COVID-19

Feb 23, 2021

Approximately one in three Americans know someone who died from coronavirus, according to the latest installment of our Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index. The big picture: The U.S. surpassed 500,000 COVID deaths...

Toward a disease-sniffing device that rivals a dog’s nose

Feb 23, 2021

In some cases, involving prostate cancer for example, the dogs had a 99 percent success rate in detecting the disease by sniffing patients’ urine samples. Scientists have been hunting for...

The invisible smallest particles matter for the air we breathe

Feb 23, 2021

“We found that the smallest particles matter the most”, says Academician Markku Kulmala from the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR). The researchers tackled the for-long controversial topic...

Students, activists, police share views about campus safety

Feb 23, 2021

Nationally, policing is a “fraught and complicated story of biases both known and unknown,” said John Dozier, MIT’s Institute community and equity officer, during introductory remarks at the event. Students...