Tag: National Institute of General Medical Sciences

  • Nation & World

    Traumatic injury sets off a ‘genomic storm’

    Harvard researchers are among a nationwide team that has found serious traumatic injuries, including major burns, set off a “genomic storm” in human immune cells, altering around 80 percent of the cells’ normal gene expression patterns.

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  • 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.

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  • Nation & World

    Breathing easier with lung regeneration

    Harvard researchers have cloned stem cells from the airways of the human lung and have shown that these cells can form into the lung’s alveoli air sac tissue. Mouse models suggest that these same stem cells are deployed to regenerate lung tissue during acute infection, such as during influenza.

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  • Nation & World

    Light maps neurons’ effects

    Scientists come up with method to track neurons as they interact with each other.

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