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Tag: Harvard Medical School
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Health
A gift to turn medical discoveries into treatments
A pledge for $200 million to Harvard Medical School will support translation of medical research into treatments and cures.
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Campus & Community
Champion of equity and social justice
For almost three decades, Joan Reede has made diversity and inclusion part of Harvard Medical School’s mission.
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Health
Is MS risk influenced by friends and families’ unhealthy habits?
A new study explores how health habits within personal social networks may impact neurological outcomes, with a special focus on multiple sclerosis.
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Health
Exercise can ‘clean up’ Alzheimer’s environment
Study finds that inducing production of new neurons can improve cognitive function in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Health
Ending 40-year quest, scientists reveal ‘hearing’ protein
Scientists have identified the sensor protein responsible for hearing and balance, putting an end to a 40-year quest.
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Science & Tech
What a difference a year of data science makes
After a successful first year, the Harvard Data Science Initiative puts its focus on five new research areas and four new fellows.
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Science & Tech
New test helps ID those at risk for five deadly diseases
A Harvard research team developed an analysis to measure millions of small genetic variations and calculate the risk of developing five serious common diseases: coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, Type 2 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, or breast cancer.
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Nation & World
Letter opposes possible EPA shift
Almost 100 faculty and leaders from Harvard and its affiliated teaching hospitals are asking the EPA in a letter to withdraw its proposal to increase “transparency” in the science that underlies regulations, saying the rule would harm human health.
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Science & Tech
Genetic barcodes trace cells back to single-cell origin
Harvard researchers have found that by using evolving genetic barcodes, the process of cell division in developing mice can be recorded, enabling the lineage of every cell to be traced back to its single-cell origin.
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Campus & Community
Drive behind pursuing concurrent degrees
Elorm Avakame chose to pursue a concurrent M.P.P./M.D. degree at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Medical School because “in Medical School, we are all training to be doctors, but here at the Kennedy School, people are training for so many different walks of life.”
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Health
Seeking a culprit behind rise in colorectal cancer among younger adults
Kimmie Ng, a Dana-Farber physician-researcher, answers questions on possible factors driving an increase in colon cancer among young adults.
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Health
Cystic fibrosis clues found in newly identified cell type
Researchers have found cells that appear to be the primary source of activity of the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis, a serious, multiorgan disease.
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Health
‘Alzheimer’s in a dish’ model provides some answers
A Harvard research team has now produced a system that includes neuroinflammation, the key biological response that leads to the death of brain cells and later produces cognitive impairment, which can result in dementia.
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Campus & Community
Spirit of inquiry
Harvard Medical School’s Benyam Kinde, Ph.D. ’16, M.D., ’18, led investigations that uncovered a novel role of the MECP2 protein — which when mutated leads to the devastating neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome — in regulating gene expression in the developing brain.
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Health
Death is universal, but sometimes murky
A Q&A with ethicist Robert Truog to mark the 50-year anniversary of a Harvard Medical School panel’s landmark report on brain death.
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Campus & Community
Ruiz found support at Medical School
The eldest of three children in a Mexican-American family in Texas, Jessica Ruiz, M.D. ’18, was one of only 14 members of the Class of 2018 who received the M.D. degree with Honors in a Special Field (magna cum laude).
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Health
Sensory disorders hold key to neurologic treatments
The Bertarelli Foundation is redoubling its investment in Harvard Medical School’s research on sensory disorders.
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Health
The love lives of fruit flies
Harvard study reveals how the neurobiology of fruit fly courtship can help illuminate understanding of human disorders of motivation.
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Health
The unsavory side of sugar
“Epidemiologic, Physiologic, and Policy Considerations of the Sugar Epidemic” brought health and science experts together at Harvard Medical School to discuss sugar’s effects on health and public policy.
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Health
Big data targets drug resistance
Harvard Medical School symposium examines the role of big data in fighting drug-resistant microbes.
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Health
Survey of oncologists finds knowledge gap on medical marijuana
Harvard psychiatrist Ilana Braun found a knowledge gap on medical marijuana in a survey of oncologists nationwide.
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Health
New research finds key players in MS progression
Researchers identify the key players involved in the gut-brain connection and their roles in the progression of neurologic diseases, such multiple sclerosis.
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Campus & Community
Harvard awards 8,042 degrees and certificates
Harvard University awarded a total of 8,042 degrees and certificates over the 2017–18 academic year.
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Health
Leveling the medical playing field
Harvard Medical School graduate Mary Tate wants to reduce the inequities that exist in Americans’ health by reaching out to disadvantaged communities and working to improve their patient care.
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Campus & Community
‘To be horrified by inequality and early death and not have any kind of plan for responding — that would not work for me’
In the Experience series, Paul Farmer talks Partners In Health, “Harvard-Haiti,” and making the lives of the poor the fight of his life.
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Campus & Community
Expanding support for leading research
A gift from Josh Friedman ’76, M.B.A. ’80, J.D. ’82, and Beth Friedman, longstanding benefactors of the University, will double the resources available for high-risk, high-reward science, allowing more of the most ambitious research projects at Harvard to move forward.
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Health
Food for thought on new ideas
At Harvard-backed “Guppy Tank” sessions, proposals for a new diet that restricts proteins and essential amino acids instead of calories and nutritional supplements to counteract the negative effects of sleep deprivation got feedback from the pros.
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Health
Environmental medicine brings climate change to forefront
During a panel discussion at Harvard Medical School, members of Students for Environmental Awareness in Medicine gave the physicians’ perspective on how environmental issues will impact human health.
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Science & Tech
From one, many
Harvard research teams systematically profiled every cell in developing zebrafish and frog embryos to establish a roadmap revealing how one cell builds an entire organism.
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Science & Tech
Natural barcodes enable better cell tracking
A group of Harvard researchers has developed a new genetic-analysis technique that harnesses “natural barcodes” to create what happens to cells when they are exposed to any kind of experimental condition, enabling large pools of cells from multiple people to be analyzed for personalized medicine.
