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Is anybody listening? Pandemic fatigue sets in among Californians as state faces 'viral tsunami'

Dec 11, 2020

The state imposed a nighttime curfew for the state’s hardest-hit counties, saying it was crucial to decrease transmission and slow hospitalizations. “We’ve seen slight reductions (from the curfew,) but nothing...

A consortium co-led by the University of Helsinki awarded 2 million euros for research of severe paediatric SIRS

Dec 10, 2020

The amount of the ERA PerMed grant for the University of Helsinki is 450 000 euros. At the University of Helsinki, the consortium is led by Academy Research Fellow Markku...

Cells optimized to produce antimicrobial agents

Dec 9, 2020

Wednesday 09 Dec 20In countries where antimicrobial agents can be given without a prescription to both humans and animals, the presence and spread of resistance is a major problem. With...

C.D.C. Call for Data on Vaccine Recipients Raises Alarm Over Privacy

Dec 8, 2020

He added, “We will not be reporting name, ZIP code, race, ethnicity or address.”In the United States, collecting immunization data has been a purely state-by-state effort. Lawyers for the state...

Carbon-Loaded Peatlands Can’t Be Ignored, scientists agree

Dec 8, 2020

Peatlands occupy 3% of the global land area, but contain about 25% of the global soil carbon stock — equivalent to twice the amount in the world’s forests. And, that...

Illustrating Covid-19 hygiene best practices

Dec 8, 2020

An international multidisciplinary team of volunteers known as TeamOSV-X has been utilizing this medium to demonstrate health, hygiene, and safety best practices related to Covid-19. As Covid-19 spread around the...

Lincoln Laboratory is designing a payload to integrate on Japanese satellites

Dec 8, 2020

Satellites in GEO support critical services, including commercial and military communications, weather forecasting, and missile launch warnings. The number of satellites and debris objects in the GEO belt is growing...

Myriam Denov receives award for her research on children and families affected by war.

Dec 7, 2020

By Meaghan Thurston, Office of Research and InnovationHaving spent the better part of two decades working with war-affected children and families, McGill’s Myriam Denov knows that the horrors of war...

Gut research identifies key cellular changes associated with childhood-onset Crohn’s Disease

Dec 7, 2020

Crohn’s Disease is a type of Inflammatory Bowel Disease affecting around one in every 650 people in the UK. Tissues from the guts of children with Crohn’s Disease, aged between...

Two MIT seniors named 2021 Marshall Scholars

Dec 7, 2020

She also serves on the Dean’s Action Group on Social and Ethical Computing, and the MIT Undergraduate Innovation Committee. Marla Evelyn OdellOdell, from Edmonds, Washington, is majoring in computer science,...