Tag: Research

  • Health

    Updating embryo research guidelines

    Scientists and ethicists gathered at Harvard Law School to discuss the ethics of human embryo experimentation and whether a two-week developmental time limit on their use is appropriate any longer.

  • Campus & Community

    Ten from Harvard named HHMI Faculty Scholars

    Ten Harvard scientists have won the support of a new funding initiative by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation, and the Gates Foundation.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard establishes research alliance with Tata companies

    Harvard University has established a six-year, $8.4 million research alliance with a group of Tata companies. The first-of-its-kind initiative adds a new leadership-development component to the University’s research partnerships.

  • 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

    Green storage for green energy grows cleaner

    Harvard scientists and engineers have demonstrated an improved flow battery that can store electricity from intermittent energy sources. The battery contains nontoxic compounds, inexpensive materials, and can be cost-effective for both residential and commercial use.

  • Campus & Community

    Incoming dean, rising School

    A question-and-answer session with Frank Doyle, incoming dean of the rapidly growing Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

  • Science & Tech

    Unveiling the ancient climate of Mars

    The high seas of Mars may never have existed. According to a new study that looks at two opposite climate scenarios of early Mars, a cold and icy planet billions of years ago better explains water drainage and erosion features seen today.

  • Science & Tech

    Keys to a split-second slime attack

    Researchers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and from universities in Chile, Costa Rica, and Brazil have been studying the secret power of the velvet worm.

  • Health

    Case of the rotting mummies

    Chilean preservationists have turned to a Harvard scientist with a record of solving mysteries around threatened cultural artifacts.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Campaign has early impact

    With The Harvard Campaign in mid-stride, its early impact already can be seen and felt across campus and beyond.

  • Science & Tech

    Boston’s leaky pipes add to greenhouse-gas buildup

    A Harvard-led study reveals that an aging natural-gas distribution system short-changes Boston-area customers and contributes to greenhouse-gas buildup. Depending on the season, natural gas leaking from the local distribution system accounts for 60 percent to 100 percent of the region’s emissions of methane.

  • Science & Tech

    Crafting ultrathin color coatings

    In Harvard’s high-tech cleanroom, applied physicists produce vivid optical effects — on paper.

  • Science & Tech

    Creating ‘genomic origami’

    Researchers have assembled the first high-resolution, 3-D maps of entire folded genomes and found a structural basis for gene regulation, a kind of “genomic origami” that allows the same genome to produce different types of cells.

  • Arts & Culture

    Foreshadowing feminism

    Organizing and canvassing for anti-slavery petitions by women from 1833 to 1845 was a transformational training ground for suffragettes and other social activists following the Civil War.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard rolls out plan for the future

    The Harvard Sustainability Plan, released today, sets a holistic vision and clear priorities for how the University will move toward an even healthier, more sustainable campus community. The five-year operational plan targets reductions in energy, water, and waste while also focusing on sustainable operations, culture change, and human health.

  • Nation & World

    The mystery of the lake

    From a single study of methyl mercury in Mexico’s largest freshwater lake, a constellation of projects has grown, all of them centered on children and environmental health.

  • Nation & World

    Summering (with work) in Mexico

    Harvard students discuss their summer of research in Mexico, where they gained new insights, developed fresh confidence, and realized they wanted to return.

  • Science & Tech

    Build your own bot

    A new resource provides both experienced and aspiring researchers with the intellectual raw materials needed to design, build, and operate robots made from soft, flexible materials.

  • Science & Tech

    Have silicon switches met their match?

    Silicon has few serious competitors as the material of choice in the electronics industry. Now, Harvard researchers have engineered a quantum material called a correlated oxide to perform comparably with the best silicon switches.

  • Science & Tech

    Robot folds up, walks away

    A team of engineers used little more than paper and a classic children’s toy to build a robot that assembles itself into a complex shape in four minutes, and crawls away without human intervention.

  • Science & Tech

    Scholarly access to all

    Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, a free and open portal for the University’s peer-reviewed literature, is drawing more worldwide downloads than ever.

  • Arts & Culture

    Early experiments in catching the eye

    A new exhibit at the Business School illustrates the rise in America of artful, profit-making, culture-shaking advertising from 1865 to 1910.

  • Nation & World

    Old Harvard, old France, old crime

    An exhibit drawn from the holdings of the Harvard Law School Library combines detailed scholarship with a touch of scandal.

  • Health

    A malignant ‘switch’ in breast cancer

    A team of researchers led by David J. Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has identified a possible mechanism by which normal cells turn malignant in mammary epithelial tissues, those frequently involved in breast cancer.

  • Health

    Unmasking a viral invader

    A study from Harvard Medical School provides the first comprehensive description of how cytomegalovirus, or CMV, hijacks human cells and suggests entirely new ways to combat the infection.

  • Campus & Community

    Support on the cutting edge

    Supporter James A. Star ’83 was on hand at a ceremony to honor the inaugural winners in the Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research.

  • Nation & World

    Relief and research

    Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, was at Harvard recently to explore possible collaborations with the School of Public Health and the Kennedy School.

  • Science & Tech

    Books meet bytes

    Experts came together at Radcliffe to peer into the future of digital library collections.

  • Science & Tech

    Less energy, more creativity

    Two teams of students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design provided a close look — part celebration, part cerebration — at two house designs that won international competitions.

  • Health

    New childhood TB cases double earlier estimates

    Harvard researchers have estimated that around 1 million children suffer from tuberculosis annually — twice the number previously thought to have the disease and three times the number of cases diagnosed every year.