Tag: Stem Cell Research

  • Health

    Through the lens of black health

    Tania Fabo’s ambition is to bridge the gap between biomedical research in the laboratory and public health efforts to reduce health inequalities among minorities.

  • Campus & Community

    Hyman to lead Society for Neuroscience

    Steven E. Hyman, former provost and Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard, has been named president-elect of the Society for Neuroscience, the world’s largest organization of brain and nervous system scientists and physicians.

  • Campus & Community

    Ideas to improve the everyday

    All-star Harvard faculty members at “Harvard Thinks Big” dazzled and provoked their audience in 10-minute talks Thursday that framed major questions about happiness, stem cell growth, runaway obesity, and the exploding American prison population.

  • Health

    Breakthrough in cell reprogramming

    A group of Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers has made such a significant leap forward in reprogramming human adult cells that HSCI co-director Douglas Melton said the institute will immediately begin using the new method to make patient- and disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells.