Life Sciences
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Eating meat led to smaller stomachs, bigger brains
Scholar revisits her theory explaining evolution of early primates into humans
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Scientists learn what’s ‘up’ with retinal cells
Treelike JAM-B cells are found responsible for detection of upward motion in mice
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Punishment doesn’t earn rewards
‘Winners don’t punish,’ say the authors of a forthcoming Nature paper
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Protein folding: Life’s vital origami
Scholar explains how proteins fold rightly and wrongly, and the consequences of each
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Harvard faculty members discuss state of research
Observing disease growth is a major boon of stem cell research
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President testifies for increase in NIH funding
New report warns that bright young researchers are increasingly frustrated by decreasing funding
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Research in brief
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From adult to embryonic stem cell
HSCI researchers make a major step toward being able to reprogram adult cells
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Newsmakers
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How brain cells make good connections
Understanding how synapses work may have profound implications
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Chimpanzees have ‘top guns’ on hunts
Key ‘impact hunters’ catalyze hunting among male chimpanzees
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‘Where do I come from?’
Students, others, learn about their origins from genographic experts
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Bonsai collection highlights age, beauty
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum specimens hundreds of years old
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Telling the arthropod tale of life
Giribet brings energy, optimism to search for knowledge
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Fellow’s focus is foggy, froggy forest
Sri Lanka frog radiation provides food for thought
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Decoding effort reveals fly species’ DNA
Collaboration of researchers from 16 nations sequences fruit fly genomes
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