Tag: Drug Development

  • Nation & World

    Meat and muscles, sure. But the human eye is a stretch, for now.

    The author and MIT professor Ritu Raman discussed the promise and ethical challenges of a lab-shaped future.

    4 minutes
    Lab-grown burger.
  • Nation & World

    Dissecting the ‘undruggable’

    Researchers at Harvard have designed new, highly selective tools that can add or remove sugars from a protein with no off-target effects, to examine exactly what the sugars are doing and engineer them into new treatments for “undruggable” proteins.

    5 minutes
    Christina Woo in her lab.
  • Nation & World

    The changes in drug research, testing

    In December, Congress passed a bipartisan law to boost federal medical research spending and to ease the approval of new drugs. In a panel discussion, experts at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health talked about its pros and cons, including whether it will be funded, and whether the relaxed drug approval guidelines are…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Guiding lights

    In a scientific first that could shed light on how signals travel in the brain and how learning alters neural pathways, scientists at Harvard have created genetically altered neurons that light up as they fire. The work may also lead to speedier drug development.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tracing biological pathways

    A new chemical process developed by a team of Harvard researchers may increase the utility of positron emission tomography (PET) in creating real-time 3-D images of chemical processes occurring inside the human body.

    3 minutes