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Gabrielse wins Lilienfeld Prize
Harvard Physics Professor Gerald Gabrielse has been named the winner of the 2011 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize by the American Physical Society (APS), awarded for outstanding contributions to physics....
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A new Center for Primary Care
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is launching a Center for Primary Care geared toward transforming primary care education, research, and delivery systems. Made possible by a $30 million anonymous gift,...
View ArticleProbing the golden years
In the basement of Harvard Law School’s Hemenway Gymnasium, a battle of the ages is being waged. Twice a week, the thwack of a squash ball against the court’s walls signals a match between Goelet...
View ArticleBiology researcher’s on a roll
On the second floor of Harvard’s Biological Labs, next to signs warning of biohazards and pointing to eyewash stations, there used to be another sign: No rollerblading. The incongruous warning was...
View ArticleGetting genetic leg up on climate change
A Harvard botanist is citing climate change lessons learned at Walden Pond and urging evolutionary biologists into the global warming fray, where their knowledge of species’ genetic relationships can...
View ArticleYou are where you live
We know that smoking causes cancer, yet we still light up. We know that overeating causes obesity and diabetes, yet we still overeat. We know that exercise makes us healthier, yet we can’t resist the...
View ArticleRare find
As debilitating as disease can be, sometimes it acts as a teacher. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine have found that by mimicking a rare genetic disorder...
View ArticleHelping Chinese with depression
A treatment model designed to accommodate the beliefs and concerns of Chinese immigrants appears to significantly improve the recognition and treatment of major depression in this typically underserved...
View ArticleCritical finding for skin cancer treatment
The past year has brought to light both the promise and the frustration of developing new drugs to treat melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. Early clinical tests of a candidate drug aimed at...
View ArticlePartial reversal of aging achieved in mice
Harvard scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute say they have for the first time partially reversed age-related degeneration in mice, resulting in new growth of the brain and testes, improved...
View ArticleNew facilities for Wyss Institute
With an exhortation from its biggest backer to conduct research that ultimately will improve patient care, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering officially inaugurated two facilities...
View ArticleMajor step in autism testing
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital and the University of Utah have developed the best biologically based test for autism to date. The test was able to detect the disorder in individuals...
View ArticleIce sheet in peril? Gravity to the rescue
Scientists have long been concerned that the melting of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet could become a self-reinforcing process, with the released water raising sea levels, leading to more...
View ArticleLife support for medical faculty
For Roy Ahn, life is a joy — and sometimes a struggle. The father of 1-year-old Charlie is blessed with a blossoming research career at the Division of Global Health and Human Rights in Massachusetts...
View ArticleTracking molecules at video rate
A novel type of biomedical imaging, made possible by new advances in microscopy from scientists at Harvard University, is so fast and sensitive it can capture “video” of blood cells squeezing through...
View ArticleVolumetric Imaging of Fish Locomotion
Using a new form of laser imaging device, Brooke Flammang and colleagues at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology have discovered that “the dorsal and the anal fin make a great contribution to the...
View ArticleHarvard Medical School researchers crawl a neural network
Scientists can finally look at circuits in the brain in all of their complexity. How the mind works is one of the greatest mysteries in nature, and this research presents a new and powerful way for us...
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