Tag: Biophysics
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Nation & World
Why elephants have bigger bones
During a virtual Harvard Science Book Talk, Raghuveer Parthasarathy examines the mysteries covered in his new book, “So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World.”
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Nation & World
Making the worms turn
Biophysicist Aravinthan Samuel has developed new techniques to monitor and influence the behavior of roundworms to learn how their basic nervous systems work, a first step to understanding the circuitry in more complex creatures, like humans.
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Nation & World
Xie awarded for biophysics contributions
Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Sunney Xie will receive the Founders Award from the Biophysical Society for his influential contributions in the field of biophysics.
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Nation & World
Two GSAS physics students named Hertz Foundation Fellows
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has awarded Hertz Fellowships to Adam Marblestone, a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard Biophysics Program, and Tony Pan, a theoretical astrophysics Ph.D. candidate at Harvard.
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Nation & World
Harris Wang wins 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition
Harris Wang, doctoral student in biophysics at Harvard Medical School, wins grand prize in Collegiate Inventors Competition.
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Nation & World
Working to lift the fog of war
Thousands of miles from his Harvard lab, Kevin Kit Parker is lugging a gun and his engineer’s sensibilities through the mountains south of Kabul, in Afghanistan’s Wardak and Logar Provinces.