Fourteen faculty named to 2007 class of AAAS fellows, honorary members
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) on Monday (April 30) announced the election of 203 new fellows and 24 new foreign honorary members. Included among this new field of fellows and...
View ArticleDamon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards fellowships to Harvard scientists
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting exceptional early career researchers and innovative cancer research, has selected four Harvard affiliates to...
View ArticleHouse masters appointed
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African-American Studies, today (March 26) announced the appointment of...
View ArticleThrowing a genetic switch
Genome-wide analysis of mice brains has found that maternally inherited genes are expressed preferentially in the developing brain, while the pattern shifts decisively in favor of paternal influence by...
View ArticleGenes tied to prostate cancer uncovered
For the first time, researchers have laid bare the full genetic blueprint of multiple prostate tumors, uncovering alterations that have never before been detected and offering a detailed view of the...
View ArticleMultiple myeloma genome unveiled
Scientists have unveiled the most comprehensive picture to date of the full genetic blueprint of multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. A study of the genomes from 38 cancer samples has yielded new...
View ArticleBrain changes found in normal elders
Harvard-affiliated researchers using two brain-imaging technologies have found that apparently normal older individuals with brain deposits of amyloid beta — the primary constituent of the plaques...
View ArticleSpeeding up biomolecular evolution
Scientists at Harvard University have harnessed the prowess of fast-replicating bacterial viruses, also known as phages, to accelerate the evolution of biomolecules in the laboratory. The work,...
View ArticleBetter blood
An innovative experimental treatment for boosting the effectiveness of blood stem-cell transplants with umbilical cord blood has a favorable safety profile in long-term animal studies, according to...
View ArticleRNA dynamics deconstructed
RNA plays a critical role in directing the creation of proteins, but there is more to the life of an RNA molecule than simply carrying DNA’s message. One can imagine that an RNA molecule is born,...
View ArticleAnimal scents
A new Harvard study of how mice respond to scent cues from potential mates, competitors, and nearby predators has laid a foundation for further investigations that may lead to a greater understanding...
View ArticleDialing down sickle cell disease
Flipping a single molecular switch can reverse illness in an animal model of sickle cell disease, according to a study by Harvard researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston (CHB) and Dana-Farber Cancer...
View ArticleThree GSAS Students Win New Howard Hughes Funding
Three GSAS students — Nataly Moran Cabili (PhD candidate in systems biology), Mehmet Fisek (PhD candidate in neuroscience), and Le Cong (PhD candidate in biological and biomedical sciences) — are among...
View ArticleThree GSAS among winners of HHMI fellowships
Three Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) students — Nataly Moran Cabili, Ph.D. candidate in systems biology, Mehmet Fisek, Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience, and Le Cong , Ph.D. candidate in...
View ArticleThe early days of discovery
A recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry investigated the workings of cell receptors, the basis of his lengthy, groundbreaking research involving the complex processes of how the body’s...
View ArticleHHMI taps Erin O’Shea
Erin K. O’Shea, the director of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) Center for Systems Biology and the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Chemistry and...
View ArticleWarren E.C. Wacker dies
Warren E.C. Wacker, former Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene Emeritus, died on Dec. 29, 2012. Wacker held various positions at Harvard over the years. He was an investigator at the Howard Hughes...
View ArticlePotential diabetes breakthrough
Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have discovered a hormone that holds promise for a dramatically more effective treatment of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic illness afflicting an...
View ArticleNew investigators named
Two Harvard faculty members are among 27 scientists nationwide to be appointed as new investigators by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Adam Cohen, professor of chemistry and chemical...
View ArticleSummer in the lab
While 17-year-old Haley Greenslade’s friends were busy working the usual summer jobs — babysitting, working in movie theaters, flipping burgers — she spent her break doing something different....
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