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A data bank to battle cancer Researchers hope effort will help target diseases faster and more precisely Sam Ogden/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute HMS faculty members Barrett Rollins (left) and Janina Longtine are collaborating on a massive, long-term effort to collect and analyze tumor tissue from 10,000 cancer patients each year. Using automated gene-analysis technology, they’ll scan […]
Guiding lights Harvard researcher creates neurons that illuminate as they fire In a culture of neurons genetically modified to express a protein derived from a Dead Sea microorganism, the fluorescence of the cells depends on the voltage across the cell membrane. An increase in voltage in the cell in pink caused its fluorescence to stand […]
Relief for stem cell transplant patients Graft-versus-host disease treatment results in improvement Dana-Farber Cancer Institute “More than half of patients who successfully undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplants [in which the blood-making tissue in the bone marrow is wiped out with chemotherapy and replaced with blood-forming stem cells from a donor] develop chronic GVHD,” says the […]
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Nano meets pharma at Harvard-BASF symposium Experts gather this week to discuss the efficient creation and delivery of nanoscale particles of drugs Cambridge, Mass. – November 30, 2011 – From targeted cancer chemotherapy to the guarantee of successful organ transplants, the 21st century may prove to be the age of big ideas in medicine. The drugs […]
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Imaging instruction Researchers produce ‘primer’ to guide the use of STORM A comparison of high- and low-quality STORM images of microtubules (top panels) and clathrin-coated pits (lower panels). The panels at left are from a dye that produces high-quality STORM images due to a high brightness and low duty-cycle. The images at right are […]
Rebuilding the brain’s circuitry Healthy neurons can integrate into diseased areas “The next step for us is to ask parallel questions of other parts of the brain and spinal cord, those involved in ALS and with spinal cord injuries. In these cases, can we rebuild circuitry in the mammalian brain? I suspect that we can,” […]
Alleviating radiation sickness Study identifies two-drug regime that may limit radiation sickness “There is great interest in creating systems for dealing with the short- and long-term health risks of a significant release of radiation, whether from an accident at a nuclear power plant, an act of terrorism, or even a small-scale incident in which […]
Canned soup linked to higher BPA levels Found in the can’s lining, BPA is associated with adverse health effects The Harvard School of Public Health researchers set out to quantify whether canned-soup consumption would increase urinary BPA concentrations relative to eating fresh soup. Fresh soup proved to be the healthier choice./Justin Ide/Harvard Staff Photographer ### […]
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Where wild food matters In remote areas, bush meat still plays pivotal role in people’s diet, study says Postdoctoral fellow Christopher Golden conducted a yearlong study in the northeast corner of Madagascar that found that lost access to bush meat would lead directly to a 30 percent relative increase in malnutrition among children 12 years […]
Facebook CEO visits Harvard … … ### Former Harvard student and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stopped by his old stomping grounds to answer a few questions. ### * The above story is adapted from materials provided by Harvard University _________________________________________________________________
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