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Tag: Research
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Campus & Community
Phys Ed: Is Running Barefoot Better for You?
Daniel Lieberman, PhD, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, studies and periodically practices barefoot running. His academic work focuses in part on how early man survived by evolving the ability to lope for long distances after prey, well before the advent of Nike shoes. There “is good evidence that humans have been…
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Campus & Community
Results of AIDS vaccine trial ‘weak’ in second analysis
In an editorial accompanying the journal paper, Dr. Raphael Dolin of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston said the overall findings were nonetheless “of potentially great importance to the field of HIV research” because they might yield information about the kinds of immune responses necessary to provide protection against the virus….
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Campus & Community
Alcohol hinders having a baby through IVF, couples warned
Doctors at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, asked 2,574 couples about their drinking habits shortly before they embarked on a course of IVF treatment.
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Campus & Community
A Cancer Visible To The Naked Eye, But Doctors Aren’t Looking
“We were very, very surprised,” Geller recalls. “About three-quarters of them were never trained in the skin cancer exam, and more than half never once practiced the examination during their primary care residency.” Geller, who’s a senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, says those high levels of inexperience are really worrisome.…
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Campus & Community
In Milliseconds, Brain Zips From Thought To Speech
An unusual experiment is offering some tantalizing clues about what goes on in the brain before we speak. The study found that it takes about half a second to transform something we think into something we say. And three very different kinds of processing needed for speech are all happening in a small part of…
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Campus & Community
Harvard team grows heart muscle
Harvard researchers have created a strip of pulsing heart muscle from mouse embryonic stem cells, a step toward the eventual goal of growing replacement parts for hearts damaged by cardiovascular disease.
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Health
From stem cells to heart muscle
A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and collaborators at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has taken a giant step toward possibly using human stem cells to repair damaged hearts.
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Nation & World
Stimulus funds provide research boost
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has helped stimulate research across the University, laying the foundation for future economic growth through innovation.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
As part of an effort to develop creative solutions to Harvard’s projected long-term budget deficit, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard College recently launched an online Idea Bank where community members can submit recommendations for reducing costs and generating revenues.
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Campus & Community
HSPH professor Stephen Lagakos dies at 63
Stephen Lagakos, an international leader in biostatistics and AIDS research and professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), died in an auto collision on Monday, October 12, 2009 in Peterborough, N.H. He was 63 years old.
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Health
What makes a successful society?
New research argues that the health of the population and the success or failure of many public health initiatives hinge as much on cultural and social factors as they do on doctors, facilities, or drugs.
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Campus & Community
Rubin elected a corresponding fellow by British Academy
Donald B. Rubin was elected a corresponding fellow for distinction in research at the Annual General Meeting of the British Academy on July 16.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Forest announces Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research for 2009-10
Harvard Forest recently announced the 2009-10 Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research. The fellowship program was established in 1962 to support the advanced research of individuals who show promise in making important contributions to forestry.
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Campus & Community
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics invites applications for 2010-11 fellowships
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics is now accepting applications for 2010-11.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Business School
The Business School has named Nobuo Sato (MBA ‘82) executive director for its Japan Research Center in Tokyo.
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Science & Tech
Stem cells: Mending a broken heart?
Dr. Kenneth Chien speaks about a cardiac stem cell discovery that may be the first step on the path to regenerating healthy heart muscle.
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Campus & Community
Study Finds Pro and Cons to Prostate Surgeries
People intuitively think that a minimally invasive approach has fewer complications, even in the absence of data,” said Dr. Jim C. Hu, the study’s lead author, who is director of urologic robotic and minimally invasive surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
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Campus & Community
Stephen Lagakos, talented biostatistician with a common touch
“His seminal contributions to the field of AIDS research helped provide crucial statistical foundations upon which we could better combat this terrible disease,’’ Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, said in a statement issued yesterday.
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Campus & Community
Tweens convene for learning, support on body image
In a study about weight and body satisfaction, researchers measured the height and weight of 4,254 schoolchildren from Nova Scotia and asked them how much they agreed with the statement “I like the way I look.”
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Campus & Community
Body’s Own Antioxidant May Slow Parkinson’s Decline, Study Says
Today’s study “suggests a new approach in slowing down the rate of the disease,” said Schwarzschild, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, in an Oct. 9 telephone interview. “People live with Parkinson’s disease for decades. We want to make those decades much more manageable and keep people much more mobile….”
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Campus & Community
U.S. study shows mammograms save lives
“The most effective method for women to avoid death from breast cancer is to have regular mammographic screening,” Dr. Blake Cady of Cambridge Hospital Breast Center and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts told reporters in a telephone briefing…
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Campus & Community
Understanding the Anxious Mind
Jerome Kagan’s “Aha!” moment came with Baby 19. It was 1989, and Kagan, a professor of psychology at Harvard, had just begun a major longitudinal study of temperament and its effects. Temperament is a complex, multilayered thing, and for the sake of clarity, Kagan was tracking it along a single dimension: whether babies were easily…
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Campus & Community
Autism’s genetic roots examined in new government-funded study
Researchers at Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston will sequence the genomes of at least 85 people diagnosed with autism in a bid to tease out the genetic basis for some cases of the neuropsychiatric disorder.
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Campus & Community
Earth’s ‘Boring Billion’ Years Blamed on Sulfur-Loving Microbes
“If we really want to understand what’s happed in the history of Earth, we really have to understand this cross talk between the physical and biological processes,” says study coauthor Andrew Knoll of Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Wilson honored by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Edward O. Wilson has been named Commander, First Class of the Royal Order of the Polar Star by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
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Campus & Community
Belfer Center announces 2009-10 research fellows
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announces 32 new fellows for the 2009-10 academic year.
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Health
Betley probes natural power plant
Harvard chemist Ted Betley is examining the process of photosynthesis to understand and manipulate nature’s engineering.
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Campus & Community
Quest for a Long Life Gains Scientific Respect
In mice, sirtuin activators are effective against lung and colon cancer, melanoma, lymphoma, Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease, said David Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School researcher and co-founder of Sirtris. The drugs reduce inflammation, and if they have the same effects in people, could help combat many diseases that have an inflammatory…
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Campus & Community
NIH funds risky, potentially transformative research by Harvard faculty members
Eighteen faculty members at Harvard and Harvard-affiliated institutions are among 115 scientists nationally whose promising and innovative work was recognized today with the announcement of three grant programs by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Campus & Community
If You Need to Work Better, Maybe Try Working Less
When members of 12 consulting teams at Boston Consulting Group were each required to take a block of “predictable time off” during every work week, “we had to practically force some professionals” to get away, says Leslie Perlow, the Harvard Business School leadership professor who headed the study.