Tag: Sharad Ramanathan

  • Nation & World

    Bringing biology and mathematics together

    The National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation have awarded a grant to Harvard scientists to create a research center aimed at bringing biologists and mathematicians together to answer some of the central questions about living systems.

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  • Nation & World

    Biology without borders

    To increase scientific understanding of biological systems, Harvard is launching an interdisciplinary research effort called the Quantitative Biology Initiative, with support from University President Drew Faust and Dean Michael D. Smith.

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  • Nation & World

    Controlling behavior, remotely

    Researchers have been able to take control of tiny, transparent worms by manipulating neurons in their brains, using precisely targeted pulses of laser light.

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  • Nation & World

    Funding innovation

    Nine researchers from across Harvard have received more than $15 million in special National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants designed to foster innovative research with the potential to propel fields forward and speed the translation of research into improved public health.

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  • Nation & World

    Ramanathan honored as Pew Scholar

    Harvard University’s Sharad Ramanathan, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology, has been named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.

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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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  • Nation & World

    Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

    Harvard scientists have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons’ ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how neurons interact…

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