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Designing the built environment through a service lens - MIT - Poverty (Feb 23, 2022) |
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Feb 23, 2022 · d="M12.132,61.991a5.519,5.519,0,0,1-5.866,5.753A5.554,5.554,0,0,1,.4,61.854a5.809,5.809,0,0,1,1.816-4.383,6.04,6.04,0,0,1,4.05-1.37C9.9,55.965,12.132,58.43,12.132,61.991Zm-8.939-.137c0,2.328,1.117,3.7,3.073,3.7s3.073-1.37,3.073-3.7-1.117-3.835-3.073-3.835C4.45,58.156,3.193,59.526,3.193,61.854Z" transform="translate(-0.4 -55.965)" fill="#333"/> d="M17.884,67.531l-3.352-5.753-1.257-2.191v7.944H10.9V56.3h2.793l3.212,5.616c.419.822.7,1.37,1.257,2.328V56.3h2.374V67.531Z" transform="translate(3.765 -55.889)" fill="#333"/> ... Read more ...
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SHERLOCK-based one-step test provides rapid and sensitive Covid-19 detection | MIT News - MIT - Poverty (May 05, 2020) |
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May 05, 2020 · A team of researchers at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the Ragon Institute, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has developed a new diagnostics platform called STOP (SHERLOCK Testing in One Pot). The test can be run in an hour as a single-step reaction with minimal handling, advancing the CRISPR-based SHERLOCK diagnostic technology closer to a point-of-care or at-home testing tool. The test has not been reviewed or approved by the FDA and is currently for research purposes only.
The team began developing tests for COVID-19 in January after learning about the emergence of a new virus which has challenged the ... Read more ...
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Study: Life might survive, and thrive, in a hydrogen world | MIT News - MIT - Poverty (May 04, 2020) |
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May 04, 2020 · As new and more powerful telescopes blink on in the next few years, astronomers will be able to aim the megascopes at nearby exoplanets, peering into their atmospheres to decipher their composition and to seek signs of extraterrestrial life. But imagine if, in our search, we did encounter alien organisms but failed to recognize them as actual life.
That's a prospect that astronomers like Sara Seager hope to avoid. Seager, the Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Science, Physics, and Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, is looking beyond a "terra-centric" view of life and casting a wider net for what kinds of environments beyond our own might actually be habitable.
In a ... Read more ...
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Technique could enable cheaper fertilizer production | MIT News - MIT - Poverty (May 04, 2020) |
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May 04, 2020 · Media can only be downloaded from the desktop version of this website.
Most of the world's fertilizer is produced in large manufacturing plants, which require huge amounts of energy to generate the high temperatures and pressures needed to combine nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia.
MIT chemical engineers are working to develop a smaller-scale alternative, which they envision could be used to locally produce fertilizer for farmers in remote, rural areas, such as sub-Saharan Africa. Fertilizer is often hard to obtain in such areas because of the cost of transporting it from large manufacturing facilities.
In a step toward that kind of small-scale production, the ... Read more ...
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A mobile tool for global change - MIT - Poverty (Mar 08, 2020) |
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Mar 08, 2020 · Frontline health workers represent the lifeblood of many health care systems in low- and middle-income countries around the world. Often overworked and underpaid, these workers operate outside hospital settings to meet the community's poorest people where they live and work, ensuring health care initiatives impact the families that need them most.
The global growth in cell phone ownership has increased the potential for mobile solutions to help these workers, and perhaps no company has unlocked that potential with more success than the social enterprise Dimagi.
Dimagi's flagship product, CommCare, lets users with no coding experience build apps featuring things like ... Read more ...
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J-PAL North America seeks partners to research homelessness - MIT - Poverty (Jan 13, 2020) |
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Jan 13, 2020 · To many, rising rates of homelessness in some U.S. cities might seem like an intractable challenge. In the United States, more than 500,000 people experience homelessness on a given night, and 1.4 million people pass through emergency shelters in a given year. Many more individuals experience housing instability in other, often uncounted forms, whether living doubled-up with friends or family, living in temporary accommodations such as motels, or living under threat of eviction.
However, the challenge of housing instability is not insurmountable. There is strong evidence on some strategies for ending homelessness and there are powerful tools for learning even more about how to ... Read more ...
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A new way to irrigate crops year-round - MIT - Poverty (Jan 10, 2020) |
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Jan 10, 2020 · Toward the end of 2019, startup Khethworks began selling what the team refers to internally as "version one" of its 320-watt solar-powered water pump. The pump allows farmers in India who rely on crop harvests to feed their families to farm year-round instead of being limited to the four-month monsoon season. In just a couple of months, the product has started to change the fortunes of underserved farmers in India, lifting up families and impacting entire villages.
But getting to version one was neither quick nor easy. For Khethworks co-founder and CEO Katie Taylor SM '15, the first product release is the culmination of an uncompromising journey, begun in 2014, to create a ... Read more ...
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