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Traumatic injury sets off a ‘genomic storm’ New research overturns longstanding assumption “Burn patients may take months to years to recover from their injuries, while trauma patients who are going to recover usually do so within a month. So it was entirely unexpected that gene expression patterns in burns and trauma patients changed in exactly […]
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Rotating Night Shift Work Linked to Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women Boston, MA — Women who work a rotating (irregular) schedule that includes three or more night shifts per month, in addition to day and evening working hours in that month, may have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes when […]
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Plotting the demise of AIDS Scientists, doctors, and activists note progress, calibrate challenges Photo by Aubrey LaMedica/ HSPH / A two-day conference titled “AIDS@30: Engaging to End the Epidemic,” which drew hundreds to the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, worked to engage those who know the ailment best to plot its end. The Dec. 1 […]
Worming out of listening Freshman seminar re-creates Darwin’s experiments Justin Ide/Harvard Staff Photographer Earthworms took center stage at John Knowles Paine Hall last month as students in a freshman seminar re-created Darwin’s experiment exploring the creature’s hearing. Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Ned Friedman (third from left) and students peer at worms to […]
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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,” […]
