Tag: Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

  • Nation & World

    Lasering in on tumors

    In the battle against brain cancer, doctors now have a new weapon: an imaging technology that will make brain surgery dramatically more accurate by allowing surgeons to distinguish between brain tissue and tumors, and at a microscopic level.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    One Harvard

    One Harvard is a message to a University of many parts: Get up off your tub. Exit your silo. Share what you know. And it’s happening.

    22 minutes
  • Nation & World

    One cell is all you need

    Scientists at Harvard have pioneered a breakthrough technique that can reproduce an individual’s entire genome from a single cell. The development could revolutionize everything from cancer treatment, by allowing doctors to obtain a genetic fingerprint of a person’s cancer early in treatment, to prenatal testing.

    5 minutes