Tag: Amy Wagers

  • Campus & Community

    Taking aim at global solutions

    Panels examine challenges ahead: riven democracies, biomedical advances, raging inequity, climate change, harnessing AI, role of academy.

    8–13 minutes
    The “Revitalizing Democracy” panel was held at the JFK Forum.
  • Campus & Community

    Faculty, staff committees for presidential search named

    Archon Fung, Meredith Weenick to serve as chairs.

    4–7 minutes
    Sever Hall and a gate with an “H” is framed by foliage in Harvard Yard.
  • Science & Tech

    New gene-transport system gets more drugs to sick muscles

    A newly engineered gene-delivery system has the potential to make gene therapy for muscle diseases both safer and more effective for patients.

    5–7 minutes
    Muscle neuron.
  • Science & Tech

    Study looks to genome editing to treat deadly degenerative disorder

    Harvard stem-cell research receives support from Sarepta Therapeutics for work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

    4–5 minutes
    Researcher in lab.
  • Campus & Community

    Changes coming to Gen Ed

    This fall, Harvard College will launch a new General Education program for undergraduates, which now offers a total of 160 courses.

    4–6 minutes
    Amanda Claybaugh portrait
  • Science & Tech

    Editing genes at the source

    Study shows how genes could be edited in stem cells within intact organs, without having to remove them from their normal environment. The new approach could treat a variety of diseases.

    4–6 minutes
    uninjected and injected cells
  • Campus & Community

    Seven recognized for high-risk, high-reward research

    Seven Harvard scientists are among the 89 researchers selected to receive grants through the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which funds innovative research designed to address major challenges in biomedical science.

    6–9 minutes
    Test Tubes
  • Campus & Community

    New group of Harvard College Professors

    Robin Bernstein, Lawrence Bobo, George Lauder, Yukio Lippit, and Amy Wagers have been named Harvard College Professors.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Inquiring minds rewarded

    Ideas in language, health, and astronomy are winners in this year’s Star Family Challenge, a grant that funds high-risk, high-reward research.

    7–10 minutes
  • Health

    Medical hope on horizon

    Stem cell science is accelerating development of therapies for diabetes, ALS, other diseases, researchers tell HUBweek sessions.

    7–11 minutes
  • Health

    A decade of breakthroughs

    The Harvard Stem Cell Institute is now 10 years old. What began as an idea embracing cross-disciplinary research quickly became a generator of scientific discoveries.

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    Hope for aging brains, skeletal muscle

    Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have shown that a protein, one they previously demonstrated can make failing hearts in aging mice appear more like those of young and healthy mice, similarly improves brain and skeletal muscle function in aging mice.

    6–8 minutes
  • Health

    Clues on generating muscles

    Harvard stem cell scientists have discovered that the same chemicals that stimulate muscle development in zebrafish can be used to differentiate human stem cells into muscle cells in the laboratory, which makes muscle cell therapy a more realistic clinical possibility.

    3–4 minutes
  • Health

    A cross-country collaboration

    Amy Wagers and Emmanuelle Passegué have found that cancer stem cells actively remodel the environment of bone marrow, where blood cells are formed, so that it is hospitable only to diseased cells. This finding could influence the effectiveness of bone marrow transplants.

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    Making old hearts younger

    Two Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have identified a protein in the blood of mice and humans that may prove to be the first effective treatment for the form of age-related heart failure that affects millions of Americans, a study says.

    5–8 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Pausing to celebrate

    More than 100 faculty, students, and staff from the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology turned out for a barbecue to celebrate the full-professor promotions of Kevin Eggan, Konrad Hochedlinger, and Amy Wagers.

    2–3 minutes
  • Health

    Age-related effects of MS may prove reversible

    In a new study, Harvard stem cell researchers and scientists at the University of Cambridge have found that the age-related degeneration in conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS) may be reversible.

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute – First 5 years

    What has the Harvard Stem Cell Institute accomplished in its first 5 years?

    1–2 minutes