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HUPD is on the lookout for Shaler Lane burglary suspect
On Wednesday, Nov. 28, at approximately 9 a.m., a resident of Shaler Lane observed a white male, around 60 years old, enter and exit the residents unlocked townhouse. The suspect, described as having white hair and wearing a black waist-length raincoat, remained inside the residence for approximately two minutes. He then exited the residence and…
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Campus & Community
Student from Zimbabwe wins International Rhodes
Karin Alexander of Lowell House is a winner of an International Rhodes Scholarship. Alexander plans to further her work in social studies, in which she concentrated, during her time at…
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Campus & Community
New tissue built from fetal cells
They see some of the world’s worst birth defects at Children’s Hospital in Boston. Dario Fauza remembers a “big beautiful boy” born with a normal heart outside of his body.…
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Campus & Community
Single enzyme may be linked to obesity
The increased activity of a single enzyme in fat cells may be a common cause of obesity and obesity-linked diseases, including diabetes, according to an animal study conducted by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the University of Edinburgh and published in the Dec. 7 issue of Science. The findings could eventually pave…
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Campus & Community
Daylight savings
The increased activity of a single enzyme in fat cells may be a common cause of obesity and obesity-linked diseases, including diabetes, according to an animal study conducted by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the University of Edinburgh and published in the Dec. 7 issue of Science. The findings could eventually pave…
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Science & Tech
Scientists using gene chips identify unique form of leukemia
Currently, physicians diagnose and treat a rare form of cancer that strikes infants as a particularly aggressive form of the more common acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The cancer may respond to…
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Health
Early exposure to Ritalin may blunt desire for cocaine later in life
There are several controversies surrounding the use of Ritalin, or methylphenidate, a stimulant prescribed for children who have an abnormally high level of activity or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).…
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Health
Trying to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Harvard AIDS Institute researchers in Botswana are trying to help HIV-infected mothers and their infants. In the rural area of Molepolole, where AIDS Institute researcher Shahin Lockman lives and works,…
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Science & Tech
Analysis of potential mad cow risk in U.S. finds little chance of disease spread
The Harvard Center for Risk Analysis (HCRA), part of the Harvard School of Public Health, performed an analysis for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine what the effects would…
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Health
The fruit fly fight club
Fruit flies fight. The males will go after each other, fighting to establish dominance. Edward Kravitz, the George Packer Berry professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, is using the…
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Health
“Commoner” in brain crowns the cortex
With its role in higher cognitive functions, the cortex represents a significant evolutionary development in mammals, culminating in the enlarged hemispheres of humans and other primates. In the development of…
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Health
Whole genes delivered to cells
To make a protein, a cell’s enzymes typically edit out about 90 percent of the information along the length of a DNA strand that makes up a whole gene. In…
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Health
Comprehensive set of vision genes discovered
Using a computer program that compares bits of genetic material taken from tissue in the retinas of mice against records in a huge genetic data base from the mouse and…
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Campus & Community
Comprehensive set of vision genes discovered
Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers have discovered nearly all the genes responsible for vision, which could help in diagnosing and treating blinding diseases. Macular degeneration alone affects 25 percent of people over age 75. The discovery in mice of the full set of photoreceptor genes expressed in the retinal cells could also lead to new…
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe hosts computer expert
Susan L. Graham, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak on Improving Software Productivity today (Nov. 29) at 4 p.m., as part of the Deans Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The talk will be held in the Robert and Naida Lessin Forum in the Maxwell Dworkin…
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Campus & Community
Presidential moment
German President Johannes Rau (right) shakes hands with Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers during a visit by the German leader Nov. 15. Rau met with Summers after touring Harvard Yard with University Marshal Rick Hunt. Rau also visited the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, where he presented Abigail Collins, the centers associate director,…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard History
n Nov. 1, 1924 – The Harvard-Boston (Egyptian) Expedition begins excavation of the royal cemetery of King Cheops (Khufu) near the Great Pyramid and soon identifies the tombs of Prince Kawaab (Cheopss eldest son), four other princes, Princess Meresankh II, and two pyramid priests.
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Campus & Community
Talking stories
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE 12/3/01 They are the hard-boiled scribes, the muckrakers, the first on the scene, the late-night newsroom hounds who put a humanistic spin on the tragic. In…
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Campus & Community
To clone or leave alone?
The head of the Worcester biotech company that claims to have cloned the first human embryo ‘searched his soul’ before embarking on the research, he said during a lively discussion on the ethics of cloning and stem cell research Monday (Dec. 3) at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
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Campus & Community
Minority bone marrow registration drive is set
The Harvard Cancer Society and the Asian American Brotherhood are working with the National Marrow Donor Program to recruit minorities for the National Marrow Donor Registry. Each year more than 30,000 children and adults in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases such as leukemia. For many of these patients, a marrow or…
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Campus & Community
KSG’s Belfer Center announces a variety of fellowships for 2001-02
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and conflict studies.
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Campus & Community
A Harvard football timeline
Sept. 22 Harvard 27, Brown 20 In the season opener, the Crimson unveiled a new weapon in tailback convert Josh Staph ’02. Down 17-7, the former fullback scored two of…
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Campus & Community
Football takes home all the marbles
With the hoisting of the Ivy cup, the Harvard football teams dream season suddenly became very real on Saturday, Nov. 17. In beating rival Yale, 35-23, in the 118th playing of the Game, the Crimson won its 10th Ivy League Championship and fourth outright crown, while extending its perfect season to 9-0. Not since 1913…
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Campus & Community
Beyond Phineas Gage
Skeletons of conjoined twins and legs corkscrewed with rickets. Kidney stones the size of golf balls. The skull of a man who survived a crowbar shot through his head.
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Campus & Community
Letters, drawings, make ‘Windshield’ clear
Museums by definition preserve and display the past, but the new exhibition at the Sackler goes beyond the mere presentation of venerable objects.
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Campus & Community
A totem of appreciation
Nathan Jackson, a Tlingit carver from Ketchikan, Alaska, performs a ceremonial dance Nov. 19 during the installation of a totem pole he created especially for the Peabody Museum. Last May, as mandated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the museum returned a Tlingit totem pole which had been acquired 100 years…