Tag: Anjana Rao

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard researchers selected for National Academy of Sciences membership

    Eight Harvard faculty members this week were elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The three women and five men selected – who make up more than 10 percent of this year’s total group of honorees – are physicist Lisa J. Randall,…

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  • Science & Tech

    Discovery of calcium channel protein illuminates T cell signaling

    A rare genetic defect in a family has helped researchers identify a key signaling component in T cells. The newly identified protein, Orai1, may be a piece of a long- sought calcium channel in T cells that is critical for lymphocyte function. When two siblings inherited two copies of a mutant form of Orai1, it…

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