Tag: Editing

  • Nation & World

    Neurons at work

    Using genetic tools to implant genes that produce fluorescent proteins in the DNA of transparent C. elegans worms, Harvard scientists have been able to shed light on neuron-specific “alternative splicing,” a process that allows a single gene to produce many different proteins.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Rene Kuhn Bryant passes away

    Rene Kuhn Bryant of Lexington, Mass., a former associate editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin, died Jan. 30 after a long illness.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Alumni’s lives are in her hands

    As an editor of Harvard’s hallowed Red Books and obituary writer for Harvard Magazine, Deborah Smullyan finds the beauty and wisdom in a parade of graduates’ retrospectives.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A college degree is not optional

    A Harvard Extension School student, the first in her family to complete her studies, reflects on the parental advice that helped her along the way.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Max R. Hall, writer and editor, 100

    Max R. Hall, a former journalist, writer, teacher of writing, and scholarly book editor, died in Cambridge on Jan. 12 at 100 years of age. Until his retirement, Hall was editor at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, social sciences editor at Harvard University Press, and editorial adviser at Harvard Business School.

    2 minutes