Tag: Peter Reuell

  • Campus & Community

    Kleckner receives Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal

    Nancy Kleckner, the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology, has been awarded the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal by the Genetics Society of America in recognition of her many significant contributions to our understanding of chromosomes and the mechanisms of inheritance.

  • Health

    Watching sensory information translate into behavior

    A state-of-the-art microscope built by Harvard researchers will allow scientists to capture 3-D images of all the neural activity in the brains of tiny, transparent C. elegans worms as they crawl.

  • Science & Tech

    Today’s farming practices can cool temps

    In a surprising finding that runs counter to most climate change research, Harvard scientists examining temperature records have shown that, in regions with the most intense farming, peak summer temperatures have declined over the decades.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard biologist is first woman to lead HHMI

    Erin O’Shea, the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named the sixth president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

  • Science & Tech

    Making use of the head

    Blue-banded bees bent on pollination bang their heads against tomato plants at a rate of 350 times per second, a Harvard researcher found.

  • Science & Tech

    New World devastation

    A new study led by Harvard’s Matthew Liebmann examines the health and ecological consequences of European colonists’ contact with Native Americans.

  • Science & Tech

    Study of African trees goes public

    A postdoctoral fellow has launched a citizen-science project that aims to digitize thousands of pages of detailed observations on the life cycles of African trees.

  • Health

    A brain link to autism

    Using a visual test that is known to prompt different reactions in autistic and normal brains, Harvard researchers have shown that those differences were associated with a breakdown in the signaling pathway used by one of the brain’s chief inhibitory neurotransmitters.

  • Campus & Community

    Student scholars, with dreams aplenty

    Five Harvard students are among the 32 Americans headed to Oxford as Rhodes Scholars. Their interests are diverse, but one thing Neil Alacha, Grace Huckins, Rivka Hyland, Garrett Lam, and Hassaan Shahawy share is a desire to leave a lasting, positive impact on the world.

  • Science & Tech

    A focus on fairness

    Using a simple game in which candy is distributed between two players, researchers found that children in various countries were quick to reject unfair deals, but in three countries they were also willing to reject deals unfair to others.

  • Science & Tech

    Pinpointing punishment

    It’s a question most attorneys wish they could answer: How and why do judges and juries arrive at their decisions? The answer, according to Joshua Buckholtz, may lie in the…

  • Health

    Closer view of the brain

    A team of researchers has succeeded in imaging — at the nano scale — every item in a small portion of mouse brain. What they found, Lichtman said, could open the door to, among other things, understanding how learning alters the brain.

  • Science & Tech

    How the brain builds new thoughts

    A new study suggests that two adjacent brain regions allow humans to use a sort of conceptual algebra to construct thoughts.

  • Health

    Genetic sleuthing

    An international team of researchers led by Harvard’s Pardis Sabeti have sequenced the genomes of hundreds of samples of Lassa fever and are using that data to try to unlock the virus’ secrets.

  • Health

    How termites ventilate

    Research led by a Harvard professor describes in detail how termite mounds are ventilated.

  • Science & Tech

    A fuller picture of cancer

    A research team led by Martin Nowak has developed a model that captures both the shape and speed of tumor growth.

  • Health

    Understanding the IT band

    Research led by Carolyn Eng delivers insights into how the IT band stores and releases elastic energy to make walking and running more efficient.

  • Health

    So long, snout

    New research shows that bird beaks are the result of skeletal changes controlled by two genetic pathways, shedding light on the origins of one of nature’s most efficient tools.

  • Health

    Expanding the brain

    New findings reveal how genomic imprinting can dramatically expand biological diversity, and could have important implications for understanding the brain.

  • Science & Tech

    A shift in motherhood

    New findings draw from evolution to explain why human mothers seek help with raising their children.

  • Health

    Hard-won lizards

    Research on the evolutionary history of the anole lizard became an international adventure for Professor Jonathan Losos.

  • Science & Tech

    More eyes on climate change

    Season Spotter is a citizen-science project that aims to recruit Internet users to assist researchers analyzing images of natural scenes.

  • Science & Tech

    Tiny wires, great potential

    Harvard scientists have developed a method for creating a class of nanowires that could one day see applications in everything from consumer electronics to solar panels.

  • Health

    Sequencing Ebola’s secrets

    A global team from Harvard University, the Broad Institute, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and other institutions sequenced more than 200 additional Ebola samples to capture the fullest picture yet of how the virus is transmitted and changes over a long-term outbreak.

  • Science & Tech

    Injectable device delivers nano-view of the brain

    An international team of researchers has developed a method of fabricating nanoscale electronic scaffolds that can be injected via syringe. The scaffolds can then be connected to devices and used to monitor neural activity, stimulate tissues, or even promote regeneration of neurons.

  • Science & Tech

    Cooking up cognition

    A new study suggests that many of the cognitive capacities that humans use for cooking — a preference for cooked food, the ability to understand the transformation of raw food into cooked, and even the ability to save and transport food to cook it — are shared with chimpanzees.

  • Health

    Improved accuracy in genome editing

    A team of scientists has engineered a form of the genome-editing protein Cas9 that can be controlled by a small molecule and offers improved DNA specificity.

  • Nation & World

    Uncertain forecast for Social Security

    A new study has found that the financial health of Social Security, the program millions of Americans have relied on for decades as a crucial part of their income, has been dramatically overstated.

  • Health

    Creatures of habit

    The motor cortex is critical to learn new skills, but may not be needed to perform them, a new Harvard study says.

  • Campus & Community

    Claudine Gay named dean of social science

    Claudine Gay, a Harvard professor of government and African and African American Studies, and a distinguished scholar of mass political behavior, has been appointed dean of social science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.