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Tag: Pamela Silver
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Nation & World
Seeded amid the many surprises of COVID times, some unexpected positives
We ask experts in the fields of medicine, biology, public health, education, religion about the unexpected upsides in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nation & World
The master of survival
Proteins produced by the tardigrade are suspected of playing a role in the organism’s resilience, ultimately providing the basis for human therapies that halt tissue damage and prevent cell death.
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Nation & World
Expanding the reach of the bionic leaf
With eye on population growth, postdoc Kelsey Sakimoto teamed up with “bionic leaf” developers on a project to aid agriculture in developing world.
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Nation & World
Assumptions of how antibiotics work may be incorrect
Researchers have discovered that bacteria respond to antibiotics very differently — exactly opposite, in fact — inside the body than they do on a petri dish.
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Nation & World
‘There was just no way I was going to do what everyone else did’
Interview with Professor Pamela Silver as part of the Experience series.
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Nation & World
Bionic leaf turns sunlight into liquid fuel
A cross-disciplinary team at Harvard has created a system that uses solar energy to split water molecules and hydrogen-eating bacteria to produce liquid fuels.
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Nation & World
Changing the way genomes work
In the Wyss Institute’s inaugural podcast “Disruptive,” host Terrence McNally spoke with Pamela Silver and George Church about today’s breakthroughs in technology and modifications to an organism’s genome that can be conducted more cheaply, efficiently, and effectively than ever before.
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Nation & World
Synthetic future
In the synthetic biology lab of Professor Pamela Silver, researchers are looking for ways to make biological engineering faster, cheaper, and more predictable.
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Nation & World
Radcliffe welcomes 2011-12 fellows
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has selected 51 fellows for the 2011-12 year.
