The Covid-19 pandemic taught us how complex the science and management of infectious disease can be,…
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New test may predict Covid-19 immunity
Most people in the United States have some degree of immune protection against Covid-19, either from…
Advocating for vaccine equity
When Digbijay Mahat arrived at MIT in 2017 to begin his postdoctoral studies, he had one…
What the latest European covid-19 data suggests for the rest of the world
Europe might be seeing the end of the covid-19 emergency. A statement released yesterday by the…
Life Sciences Supermind Report outlines proposed solutions to re-imagine the global health ecosystem
The Covid-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the life science ecosystem, uniting the scientific community with a…
Omicron shows the danger of treating coronavirus like an emergency
Almost 21 months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared covid-19 a pandemic, the world is once…
In MIT visit, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston ’05 explores the accelerated shift to distributed work
When the cloud storage firm Dropbox decided to shut down its offices with the outbreak of…
New 10-minute test detects Covid-19 immunity
Researchers have successfully developed a rapid point-of-care test for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies (NAbs).…
Carbon nanotube-based sensor can detect SARS-CoV-2 proteins
Using specialized carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have designed a novel sensor that can detect SARS-CoV-2 without…