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437 <p>The songs were chosen through a previous Music Lab study, in which ad… |
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438 <p>The <a href="https://www.themusiclab.org/nhs_explorer/discography/ind… |
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439 <p>“Melody is one of the things that sticks out for lullabies. In comp… |
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518 <p>So where are we now on these issues, and what does that mean? To answ… |
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519 <p>In spring 2017, Grosz recruited <a href="https://philosophy.fas.harva… |
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520 <p>Through Embedded EthiCS, students learn to identify and think through… |
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527 <p>“We don’t need all courses, what we need is for enough students t… |
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528 <p>It became clear that Harvard’s computer science students wanted and… |
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529 <p>During a class discussion about Facebook’s infamous 2014 experiment… |
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530 <p>“It was astonishing,” she said. “How many of the groups talked … |
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531 <p>When she taught the course again, only one student said she thought a… |
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532 <p>“You need to think about what information you’re collecting when … |
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533 <h3 class="compact-bottom"><strong><big><span style="color: #0081d1;">Ma… |
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534 <p>Seeing how quickly even students concerned about ethics forgot to con… |
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535 <p>In a broad range of Harvard CS courses now, philosophy Ph.D. students… |
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536 <p>“We want the ethical issues to arise organically out of the technic… |
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538 <h2 class="transcript-header-1"><span style="color: #0081d1;"><strong>Ke… |
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546 <p><a href="https://embeddedethics.seas.harvard.edu/module.html"><em>Rea… |
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548 <p>Getting comfortable with a humanities-driven approach to learning, us… |
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549 <p>“The skill of ethical reasoning is best learned and practiced throu… |
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550 <p>Students are used to being presented problems for which there are sol… |
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551 <p>“This is extremely hard for people who are used to finding solution… |
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552 <p>“They have to learn to think with normative concepts like moral res… |
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588 <p>But as the technologies have become ubiquitous in the past 10 to 15 y… |
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589 <p>That apathy has contributed to the perceived disconnect between scien… |
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590 <p>Simmons and Grosz said that while computer science concentrators leav… |
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626 <p>A winner of the Responsible CS Challenge in 2019, the program receive… |
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628 <p>“It is exciting. It’s an opportunity to make use of our skills in… |
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629 <p>Will this ethical training reshape the way students approach technolo… |
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630 <p>Ultimately, whether stocking the field with designers, technicians, e… |
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631 <p>“Somebody has to figure out a different incentive mechanism. That�… |
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632 <p><strong><em>Next: Ethical concerns rise as AI takes an ever larger de… |
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663 <p>Having a HEPA filter running might bring Moses and her peers some pea… |
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664 <p>Thanks to “Science and Engineering for Managing COVID (ES20r),” M… |
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665 <p>Hands-on, real-world lessons are at the crux of ES20r, which was deve… |
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666 <p>Moses, a first-year student, swung by a physics building for a social… |
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667 <p>After using a sodium chloride solution and particle generator to fill… |
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668 <p>“My dorm received our HEPA filters late with no instruction on how … |
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669 <p>The students’ observations were summarized in a letter the instruct… |
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670 <p>That outcome comes as no surprise to instructors Hu, Brenner, and Doy… |
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697 <p>It’s uncharted territory for everyone — no one had ever conducted… |
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698 <p>“What is great about the learning part of this is that they are act… |
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699 <p>Many of the labs that have been developed for the course are focused … |
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700 <p>In addition to the hands-on lab work, the course also focuses on unde… |
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701 <p>Each student also selected a university they will monitor throughout … |
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702 <p>For Justas Jasevicius, A.B. ’21, an integrative biology concentrato… |
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703 <p>Jasevicius is tracking the COVID-19 response of the London School of … |
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704 <p>“No one is really tracking colleges to this extent, and there are s… |
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705 <p>Working around the dynamism of real-world data is a challenge for bot… |
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706 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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707 <div class="pull-quote__text">“This is the way education s… |
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708 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Evelyn Hu, Tarr-Coyne P… |
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711 <p>Since the COVID-19 pandemic is happening in real-time, the course is … |
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712 <p>It may be a bit of a whirlwind to teach, but teaching fellow Michael … |
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713 <p>“This class is so unique because COVID-19 is a means to an end,” … |
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714 <p>The course could also provide benefits to the University.</p> |
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715 <p>For their final projects, the students will synthesize everything the… |
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716 <p>“We tell the students each week that they are on the cutting edge, … |
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717 <p>For freshman Karen Li, working on a problem that is so relevant to ev… |
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718 <p>At every turn, she and her peers are reminded of the critical role sc… |
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719 <p>“I want to learn about how communities are changing because of the … |
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732 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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735 <category><![CDATA[RNA]]></category> |
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742 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two teams of scientists from the Wyss… |
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743 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“These achievements are exciting be… |
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744 <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><b>Getting ahold of toehold… |
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745 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The collaboration between data scient… |
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746 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a proving ground for their approac… |
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747 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, many toehold switches do not… |
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776 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We designed and synthesized a mass… |
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777 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Armed with enough data, the teams fir… |
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778 <h2><b>A picture is worth a thousand base pairs</b></h2> |
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779 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The researchers then explored various… |
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780 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We know the baseline rules for how… |
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808 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Being able to understand and expla… |
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810 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the first team analyzed toehold… |
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841 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“A real benefit of the STORM and Nu… |
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894 <p>Simões is the Alexander Agassiz Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Ha… |
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895 <p>Now, a statistical analysis of that vast database is helping scientis… |
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896 <p>In it, researchers show that the evolution of extinct lineages of rep… |
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897 <p>“It wasn’t a sudden jump that kind of established the wide divers… |
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899 <p>Evidence of this has been seen in other types of animals, but this is… |
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900 <p>The findings run contrary to the evolutionary theory of adaptive radi… |
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901 <p>Researchers of this study also included Pierce, the Thomas D. Cabot A… |
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902 <p>Simões traveled to almost all of the world’s major natural history… |
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903 <p>The scientists believe that by understanding how animals evolve over … |
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904 <p>Reptiles, for instance, have survived three major mass extinction eve… |
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907 <p>That finding cemented that fast rates of anatomical change don’t ne… |
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908 <p>“That kind of tells you on the broad scheme of things and on a glob… |
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909 <p>Further evidence that contradicted adaptive radiation included simila… |
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910 <p>The scientists weren’t able to pinpoint why this mismatch happens, … |
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911 <p>“We can see better now what are the big changes in the history of l… |
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942 <p>The findings by a team led by <a href="https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/p… |
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943 <p>More, who is also an associate professor of environmental health at L… |
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971 <p>While the rain and mud of the battlefields have been heavily chronicl… |
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972 <p>The work was published in the journal <a href="https://agupubs.online… |
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973 <p>“The fact of the matter is that the ice core has been full of surpr… |
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1001 <p>Climate Change Institute Director <a href="https://climatechange.umai… |
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1002 <p>Mayewski said an important factor in enabling the findings was the ce… |
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1003 <p>“The closer the ice core is to the action, the more relevant it is,… |
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1005 <div class="pull-quote__text">“The environment is a complex sy… |
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1006 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Alex More</div> |
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1009 <p>Historical accounts of conditions at the front commonly mention torre… |
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1010 <p>The study picked up three peaks of heavy rains followed by spikes in … |
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1011 <p>Though debate remains over the Spanish flu’s origins, there seems l… |
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1012 <p>“The environment is a complex system,” More said. “We can’t a… |
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1028 <category><![CDATA[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]]></cate… |
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1030 <category><![CDATA[Jeremy Bloxham]]></category> |
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1031 <category><![CDATA[Juan Siliezar]]></category> |
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1032 <category><![CDATA[Rakesh K. Yadav]]></category> |
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1033 <category><![CDATA[Saturn]]></category> |
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1039 <p>One of Saturn’s mysteries involves the massive storm in the shape o… |
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1040 <p>Two of the many scientists-turned-interplanetary-storm-chasers workin… |
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1041 <p>“We see storms on Earth regularly and they are always spiraling, so… |
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1042 <p>By creating a 3D simulation model of Saturn’s atmosphere, Yadav and… |
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1043 <p>In their paper, the scientists say that the unnatural-looking hurrica… |
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1044 <p>“This jet is going around and around the planet, and it has to coex… |
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1070 <p>The model the researchers created suggests the storm is thousands of … |
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1071 <p>Convection is the same force that causes tornadoes and hurricanes on … |
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1072 <p>“The hexagonal flow pattern on Saturn is a striking example of turb… |
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1073 <p>What the model didn’t produce, however, was a hexagon. Instead, the… |
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1074 <p>Interest in Saturn’s hexagon storm goes back to 1988, when astronom… |
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1075 |
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1076 <p>Relatively little is known about the storm because the planet takes 3… |
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1077 <p>Regardless, many hypotheses exist on how the storm formed. Most cente… |
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1078 <p>Yadav and Bloxham’s findings build on the latter theory, but need t… |
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1079 <p>“From a scientific point of view, the atmosphere is really importan… |
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1080 <p><em>This work was supported by the FAS Research Computing, the NASA H… |
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1090 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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1091 <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 13:47:54 +0000</pubDate> |
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1092 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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1093 <category><![CDATA[Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medica… |
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1094 <category><![CDATA[Embryo]]></category> |
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1095 <category><![CDATA[Embryonic Development]]></category> |
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1096 <category><![CDATA[morphogens]]></category> |
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1097 <category><![CDATA[Research]]></category> |
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1098 <category><![CDATA[Tony Tsai]]></category> |
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1099 <category><![CDATA[zebrafish embryos]]></category> |
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1102 <description><![CDATA[Researcher… |
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1103 … |
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1104 <p>Yet, amid this apparent pandemonium, cells begin to self-organize. So… |
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1105 <p>Now, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Institute of Scien… |
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1106 <p>Studying spinal cord formation in zebrafish embryos, a team co-led by… |
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1107 <p> </p> |
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1108 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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1109 <div class="pull-quote__text">Insights into how cells self-organ… |
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1110 <div class="pull-quote__attribution"></div> |
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1111 </aside> |
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1112 |
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1113 <p>The researchers found that adhesion codes are regulated by morphogens… |
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1114 <p>“My lab’s goal is to understand the basic design principles of bi… |
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1115 <p>Insights into how cells self-organize in early development could also… |
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1116 <p>“Constructing artificial tissues for research or medical applicatio… |
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1118 <h2><strong>Tug of war</strong></h2> |
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1119 <p>Spearheaded by Tsai and in collaboration with <a href="https://urlde… |
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1120 <p>In this model, morphogens are released from localized sources in the … |
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1121 <p>This model has limitations, however. <a href="https://urldefense.pro… |
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1122 <p>Nevertheless, cells self-sort into precise patterns, even with a nois… |
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1123 <p>To investigate, Megason, Tsai and colleagues developed a method to me… |
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1124 <p>The team used this technique to study the patterning of three differe… |
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1125 <p>The experiments revealed that cells of a similar type strongly and pr… |
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1126 <h2><strong>Adhesion code</strong></h2> |
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1127 <p>Three genes — <em>N-cadherin</em>, <em>cadherin 11</em> and <em>… |
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1128 <p>“All three adhesion molecules we looked at are expressed in differe… |
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1129 <p>Because the adhesion code is cell-type specific, the researchers hypo… |
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1130 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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1131 <div class="pull-quote__text">“The issue with tissue engineeri… |
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1132 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Sean Megason, Blavatnik… |
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1133 </aside> |
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1134 |
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1135 <p>The analyses revealed that both cell type and adhesion-molecule gene … |
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1136 <p>“What we found is that this morphogen not only controls cell fate, … |
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1137 <p>The researchers are now further investigating the interplay between m… |
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1138 |
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1139 <p>Better understanding these processes could help scientists uncover an… |
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1140 <p>“The issue with tissue engineering right now is that we just don’… |
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1141 <p>Additional authors on the study include Mateusz Sikora, Peng Xia, Tug… |
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1142 <p><em>This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (gra… |
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1149 <title>Harvard climate change expert discusses extreme h… |
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1150 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/har… |
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1152 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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1154 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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1155 <category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category> |
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1156 <category><![CDATA[Department of Earth and Planetary Sci… |
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1157 <category><![CDATA[extreme heat]]></category> |
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1158 <category><![CDATA[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]]></cate… |
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1159 <category><![CDATA[Harvard John A. Paulson School of Eng… |
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1160 <category><![CDATA[Juan Siliezar]]></category> |
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1161 <category><![CDATA[Peter Huybers]]></category> |
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1164 <description><![CDATA[With the t… |
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1165 … |
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1166 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">Q&A</h2> |
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1167 <h3 class="transcript-header-2">Peter Huybers</h3> |
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1168 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> Wha… |
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1169 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HUYBERS:</strong></span> It�… |
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1170 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> Wha… |
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1171 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HUYBERS:</strong></span> Jus… |
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1172 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> Is … |
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1173 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HUYBERS:</strong></span> As … |
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1174 <p>At a more basic level, there is the famous effect formalized by [math… |
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1175 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> Cou… |
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1176 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HUYBERS:</strong></span> I t… |
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1177 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> Wha… |
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1178 |
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1179 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HUYBERS:</strong></span> Tha… |
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1188 <title>New tool offers insights into antibody response t… |
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1189 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/new… |
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1191 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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1193 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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1194 <category><![CDATA[Brigham and Women's Hospital]]></cate… |
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1195 <category><![CDATA[coronavirus]]></category> |
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1196 <category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category> |
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1197 <category><![CDATA[Harvard Medical School]]></category> |
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1198 <category><![CDATA[Pandemic]]></category> |
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1199 <category><![CDATA[SARS-CoV-2]]></category> |
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1200 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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1201 |
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1202 <description><![CDATA[“Viral h… |
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1203 … |
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1204 <p class="add-drop-cap">A tool designed to detect viral history in a dro… |
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1205 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">VirScan, a technology that can determ… |
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1206 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The insights could inform the develop… |
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1207 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a paper published online Sept. 29 … |
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1208 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This may be the deepest serologica… |
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1209 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We now understand much, much more … |
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1210 <h2><strong>Analyzing epitopes</strong></h2> |
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1211 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In their analysis, Elledge and collea… |
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1212 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team identified 800 sites of the … |
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1213 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not all epitopes are created equal; s… |
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1214 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the case of SARS-CoV-2, the team d… |
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1215 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many were public epitopes — regions… |
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1216 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Others are considered private and rec… |
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1217 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ten epitopes were in regions essentia… |
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1218 <h2><strong>Putting insights to work</strong></h2> |
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1219 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team used the most discriminatory… |
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1220 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team’s epitope findings may hav… |
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1221 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition, the team found that ther… |
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1222 <h2><strong>Not all created equal</strong></h2> |
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1223 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team further analyzed where and w… |
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1224 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They found that patients with severe … |
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1225 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Within hospitalized patients, males m… |
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1226 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The researchers also compared the vir… |
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1227 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elledge envisions the team’s st… |
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1228 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our paper illuminates the landscap… |
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1229 <h2><strong>Disclosures and funding<br /> |
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1230 </strong></h2> |
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1231 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elledge and a co-author are founders … |
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1232 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elledge and two co-authors are invent… |
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1233 <p><em>Funding for this work was provided by grants from the National In… |
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1245 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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1249 <category><![CDATA[Drew Harvell]]></category> |
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1250 <category><![CDATA[James Hanken]]></category> |
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1254 <category><![CDATA[Peter Fried]]></category> |
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1288 <p>The researchers successfully digitized 19th-century glass models of 1… |
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1289 <p>“Handling the Blaschka models requires focus and patience, but it�… |
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1290 <p>“The technique we’ve developed for combining CT and photogrammetr… |
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1302 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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1305 <category><![CDATA[Brigham and Women's Hospital]]></cate… |
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1307 <category><![CDATA[cells]]></category> |
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1311 <description><![CDATA[Highly det… |
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1312 … |
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1313 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The work, published in Nature Sept. 2… |
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1314 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team analyzed almost a half milli… |
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1315 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The research is part of the </span><a… |
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1316 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The work also sets the stage for ther… |
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1317 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over a lifetime, the average human he… |
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1318 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Detailing the molecular processes ins… |
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1319 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Millions of people are undergoing … |
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1320 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Ultimately, these fundamental insi… |
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1321 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is what researchers set out to d… |
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1322 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team studied nearly 500,000 indiv… |
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1323 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using a combination of single-cell an… |
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1324 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The researchers discovered major diff… |
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1325 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This project marks the beginning o… |
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1326 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is the first time anyone has … |
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1327 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of this study, the researcher… |
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1328 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our international effort provides … |
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1329 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The researchers also focused on under… |
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1330 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Further research will include investi… |
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1331 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This great collaborative effort is… |
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1332 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Openly available to researchers wo… |
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1333 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This study was supported by the Briti… |
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1347 <category><![CDATA[Alvin Powell]]></category> |
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1348 <category><![CDATA[bias]]></category> |
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1349 <category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category> |
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1350 <category><![CDATA[data science]]></category> |
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1351 <category><![CDATA[Francesca Dominici]]></category> |
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1352 <category><![CDATA[Harvard Data Science Initiative]]></c… |
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1353 <category><![CDATA[Harvard Data Science Review]]></categ… |
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1354 <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> |
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1355 <category><![CDATA[Xiao-Li Meng]]></category> |
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1358 <description><![CDATA[Data scien… |
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1359 … |
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1360 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">Q&A</h2> |
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1361 <h3 class="transcript-header-2">Francesca Dominici and Xiao-Li Meng</h3> |
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1362 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">GAZETTE:</span> </strong>How… |
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1363 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">DOMINICI:</span> </strong>Da… |
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1364 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">GAZETTE:</span> </strong>How… |
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1365 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">MENG:</span> </strong>If the… |
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1366 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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1367 <div class="pull-quote__text">“It’s hard to think about an e… |
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1368 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Francesca Dominici</div> |
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1369 </aside> |
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1370 |
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1371 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">GAZETTE:</span> </strong>A l… |
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1372 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">DOMINICI:</span> </strong>We… |
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1373 <figure id="attachment_312329" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3123… |
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1374 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">GAZETTE:</span> </strong>Is … |
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1375 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">MENG:</span> </strong>We had… |
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1376 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">GAZETTE:</span> </strong>I k… |
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1377 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">MENG:</span> </strong>Well, … |
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1378 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">DOMINICI:</span> </strong>Th… |
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1379 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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1380 <div class="pull-quote__text">“If there’s any silver lin… |
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1381 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Xiao-Li Meng</div> |
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1382 </aside> |
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1383 |
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1384 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">GAZETTE:</span> </strong>Hav… |
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1385 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">MENG:</span> </strong>The ke… |
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1386 <p>Another question I think people are starting to pay more attention to… |
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1387 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">DOMINICI:</span> </strong>To… |
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1388 <figure id="attachment_312327" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3123… |
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1389 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">GAZETTE:</span> </strong>I w… |
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1390 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">DOMINICI:</span> </strong>Th… |
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1391 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">MENG:</span> </strong>The pr… |
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1392 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">GAZETTE:</span> </strong>Why… |
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1393 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">DOMINICI:</span> </strong>Th… |
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1394 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">GAZETTE:</span> </strong>Who… |
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1395 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">MENG:</span> </strong>Data s… |
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1396 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">GAZETTE:</span> </strong>Can… |
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1397 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">MENG:</span> </strong>The re… |
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1398 |
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1399 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">GAZETTE:</span> </strong>Whe… |
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1400 <p><strong><span class="transcript-speaker">DOMINICI:</span> </strong>We… |
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1401 <p><em>This interview was edited for clarity and length.</em></p> |
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1408 <title>Curve on shoes makes walking easier, but may lead… |
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1409 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/cur… |
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1412 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate> |
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1413 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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1414 <category><![CDATA[Daniel E. Lieberman]]></category> |
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1415 <category><![CDATA[Department of Human Evolutionary Biol… |
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1416 <category><![CDATA[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]]></cate… |
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1417 <category><![CDATA[Freddy Sichting]]></category> |
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1418 <category><![CDATA[Juan Siliezar]]></category> |
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1419 <category><![CDATA[MTP joints]]></category> |
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1420 <category><![CDATA[Nicholas B. Holowka]]></category> |
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1421 <category><![CDATA[Oliver B. Hansen]]></category> |
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1422 <category><![CDATA[Skeletal Biology and Biomechanics Lab… |
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1423 <category><![CDATA[toe springs]]></category> |
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1424 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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1426 <description><![CDATA[Toe spring… |
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1427 … |
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1428 <p>That’s the conclusion reached by Harvard evolutionary biologist <a … |
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1429 <p>The scientists found that the more curved a toe spring is, the less p… |
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1430 <p>“It stands to reason that if the foot muscles have to do less work,… |
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1431 <p>The researchers say this potential weakness could make people more su… |
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1432 <figure id="attachment_312169" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3121… |
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1433 <p>“One of the biggest problems in the world today of people’s feet … |
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1434 <p>The scientists say their next step is to validate their hypothesis in… |
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1435 <p>“From an evolutionary perspective, wearing modern shoes that have a… |
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1436 <p>He means the toe spring, of course, which constantly flexes the toe b… |
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1437 <p>The project started after Sichting and Lieberman met at a conference … |
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1438 <p>In the experiment, 13 participants walked barefoot and in four pairs … |
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1473 <p>It became clear while analyzing the data that the propulsive force ge… |
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1474 <p>“By reducing moments at the MTP joints, toe springs likely relieve … |
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1475 |
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1476 <p>The researchers make clear in the paper that more research is needed … |
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1477 <p>“This study isolated just one element of our shoes,” said Hansen.… |
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1478 <p>Still, they say the unrecognized biomechanical effects of toe springs… |
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1479 <p>“Walking in shoes with comfortable features such as a toe spring ha… |
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1480 <p>Don’t expect toe springs to go anywhere anytime soon, though.</p> |
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1481 <p>“We like comfort,” Lieberman said. “That’s why we sit in chai… |
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1482 <p><em>This work was funded by the American School of </em><em>Prehistor… |
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1483 <p><em> </em></p> |
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1488 <enclosure url="https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uplo… |
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1489 <item> |
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1490 <title>Joseph Henrich explores WEIRD societies</title> |
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1491 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/jos… |
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1492 |
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1493 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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1494 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:55:15 +0000</pubDate> |
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1495 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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1496 <category><![CDATA[Department of Human Evolutionary Biol… |
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1497 <category><![CDATA[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]]></cate… |
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1498 <category><![CDATA[Joseph Henrich]]></category> |
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1499 <category><![CDATA[WEIRD]]></category> |
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1500 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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1501 |
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1502 <description><![CDATA[In his new… |
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1503 … |
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1504 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">Q&A</h2> |
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1505 <h3 class="transcript-header-2">Joseph Henrich</h3> |
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1506 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> Wha… |
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1507 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HENRICH:</strong></span> If … |
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1508 <p>These differences all have to do with the kind of worlds we grow up i… |
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1509 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> Is … |
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1510 <figure id="attachment_312224" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3122… |
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1511 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HENRICH:</strong></span> Exa… |
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1512 <p>One of the points I want to make is a lot of the big institutions we … |
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1513 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> How… |
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1514 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HENRICH:</strong></span> It … |
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1515 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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1516 <div class="pull-quote__text">“It can take decades, or eve… |
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1517 <div class="pull-quote__attribution"></div> |
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1518 </aside> |
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1519 |
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1520 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> Wha… |
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1521 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HENRICH:</strong></span> Thi… |
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1522 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>GAZETTE:</strong></span> At … |
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1523 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>HENRICH:</strong></span> As … |
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1524 <p><em>This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clari… |
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1532 <item> |
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1533 <title>Machine learning models predict mice lifespan</ti… |
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1534 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/mac… |
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1535 |
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1536 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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1537 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:43:45 +0000</pubDate> |
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1538 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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1539 <category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category> |
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1540 <category><![CDATA[Alice Kane]]></category> |
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1541 <category><![CDATA[Blavatnik Institute]]></category> |
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1542 <category><![CDATA[David Sinclair]]></category> |
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1543 <category><![CDATA[Harvard Medical School]]></category> |
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1544 <category><![CDATA[Machine Learning]]></category> |
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1545 <category><![CDATA[Michael Schultz]]></category> |
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1546 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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1547 |
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1548 <description><![CDATA[Researcher… |
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1549 ]]></description> |
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1550 … |
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1551 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scientists who study aging have begun… |
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1552 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These researchers are uncovering ways… |
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1553 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A team led by David Sinclair, profess… |
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1573 </figure> |
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1574 </div> |
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1576 <div class="article-wrap"> |
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1578 <div class="article-body basic-text"> |
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1579 |
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1580 |
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1581 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We are working to predict mouse he… |
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1582 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The work marks the first time a study… |
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1583 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It can take up to three years to c… |
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1584 <h2><strong>The findings</strong></h2> |
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1585 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team tracked the health of 60 agi… |
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1586 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The researchers then trained two comp… |
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1587 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The researchers went on to track frai… |
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1588 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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1589 <div class="pull-quote__text">“[Multiple] diseases … pre… |
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1590 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Alice Kane</div> |
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1591 </aside> |
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1592 |
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1593 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The lab has made the clocks freely av… |
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1594 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The researchers also found that some … |
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1595 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team chose the model names becaus… |
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1596 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Many aspects of aging are indeed s… |
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1597 <h2>The limitations</h2> |
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1598 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The clocks were assessed only in male… |
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1599 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mice are not people; the clocks canno… |
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1600 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since frailty indices already exist f… |
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1601 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The models would also be strengthened… |
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1602 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Finding a less expensive or less i… |
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1603 </p> |
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1604 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team and others continue to work … |
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1605 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Diseases like cardiovascular disea… |
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1606 <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">This work was supported by the Gl… |
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1607 <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The authors declare they are not … |
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1608 <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sinclair’s financial disclosure… |
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1615 <title>Harvard researchers make sense of ancient fossils… |
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1616 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/har… |
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1617 |
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1618 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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1619 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:41:09 +0000</pubDate> |
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1620 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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1621 <category><![CDATA[arthropods]]></category> |
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1622 <category><![CDATA[BMC Evolutionary Biology]]></category> |
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1623 <category><![CDATA[Cambrian]]></category> |
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1624 <category><![CDATA[Chengjiang Biota]]></category> |
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1625 <category><![CDATA[Department of Organismic and Evolutio… |
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1626 <category><![CDATA[FAS]]></category> |
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1627 <category><![CDATA[Harvard]]></category> |
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1628 <category><![CDATA[Harvard China Fund]]></category> |
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1629 <category><![CDATA[Javier Ortega-Hernández]]></category> |
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1630 <category><![CDATA[Joanna M. Wolfe]]></category> |
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1631 <category><![CDATA[micro-computed tomography]]></categor… |
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1632 <category><![CDATA[micro-CT]]></category> |
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1633 <category><![CDATA[Museum of Comparative Zoology]]></cat… |
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1634 <category><![CDATA[Xiaocaris luoi]]></category> |
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1635 <category><![CDATA[Yu Liu]]></category> |
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1636 <category><![CDATA[Yunnan University]]></category> |
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1637 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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1638 |
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1639 <description><![CDATA[Harvard an… |
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1640 … |
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1641 <p>After a team of paleontologists, co-led by a Harvard scientist, used … |
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1642 <p>The discovery was <a href="https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/arti… |
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1643 <p>The work is partially funded by the <a href="https://hcf.fas.harvard.… |
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1644 <p>“Usually, we can only see one side of the animal [because of the wa… |
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1645 <p>That is what Ortega-Hernández has been doing during the last five ye… |
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1680 <p>The method is basically a creative way of getting around the common p… |
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1681 <p>The technique works a lot like the basic X-ray a person gets for a br… |
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1682 <p>The process has been gaining prominence in the study of Cambrian arth… |
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1683 <p>“It is a very exciting way of being able to study again some of the… |
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1684 <p>It’s this technique that Ortega-Hernández and Liu used to discover… |
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1685 <p>In another paper <a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fullte… |
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1711 <p>This discovery was important because the flappy labrum, a kind of upp… |
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1712 <p>The group published three other papers as part of this work. Two of t… |
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1713 <p>In the other Current Biology <a href="https://www.cell.com/current-bi… |
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1714 <p>“Having the additional data that come from the scans, it basically … |
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1715 <p>The samples the group works with each came from an area in the Yunnan… |
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1716 <p>Liu and Ortega-Hernández first connected in 2015 on another project,… |
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1717 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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1718 <div class="pull-quote__text">“With this approach, even a sing… |
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1719 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Javier Ortega-Hernánde… |
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1720 </aside> |
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1722 <p>“I had no idea what I was looking at, but it looked really nice,”… |
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1723 <p>Most of the scanning work is done in China at Yunnan University, larg… |
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1724 <p>“Before COVID-19, we had several face-to-face discussions which wer… |
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1725 <p>Still, the ability to access the data remotely comes in handy, especi… |
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1726 <p>“I would love to be able to showcase fossils from China in my class… |
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1727 <p>Ortega-Hernández and Liu say the research isn’t stopping anytime s… |
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1728 <p>“We have only really begun to scratch the surface because there are… |
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1729 <p class="p1"><em>Javier Ortega-Hernández will speak about his work in<… |
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1736 <title>Harvard team uses laser to cool polyatomic molecu… |
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1737 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/har… |
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1738 |
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1739 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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1740 <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:16:29 +0000</pubDate> |
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1741 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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1742 <category><![CDATA[CaOCH3]]></category> |
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1743 <category><![CDATA[Debayan Mitra]]></category> |
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1744 <category><![CDATA[Doyle Research Group]]></category> |
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1745 <category><![CDATA[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]]></cate… |
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1746 <category><![CDATA[John Doyle]]></category> |
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1747 <category><![CDATA[Juan Siliezar]]></category> |
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1748 <category><![CDATA[molecule calcium monomethoxide]]></ca… |
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1749 <category><![CDATA[Nathaniel B. Vilas]]></category> |
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1750 <category><![CDATA[quantum]]></category> |
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1751 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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1752 |
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1753 <description><![CDATA[Harvard re… |
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1754 … |
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1755 <p>“When we started out on the project we were optimistic but were not… |
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1756 <p>The study led by Mitra and graduate student <a href="https://projects… |
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1757 <p>The scientists believe their experiment marks the first time such a l… |
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1758 <p>“These kinds of molecules have structure that is ubiquitous in chem… |
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1784 <p>The use of lasers to control and atoms and molecules — the eventual… |
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1785 <p>The technique essentially works by firing a laser at the atoms and mo… |
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1786 <p>“The idea is that on one end of the spectrum there are atoms that h… |
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1787 |
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1788 <p>Scientists — including those from the Doyle Group which is part of … |
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1789 <p>Polyatomic molecules, on the other hand, are much more complex and ha… |
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1790 <p>To get around this, the group used a method they pioneered to cool di… |
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1791 <p>Next came the lasers. They turned on two beams of light on the molecu… |
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1792 <p>Essentially the same thing happens here with the molecule, Mitra said… |
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1793 <p>The molecule “starts at the bottom of a hill formed by the counter-… |
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1794 <p>At that point, the molecule moves closer to a region where the light … |
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1795 <p>By looking at images from cameras placed outside the sealed chamber, … |
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1796 <p>Analyzing the data further, the researchers saw just how cold. They t… |
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1797 <p>The paper lays out ways to get the molecule even colder, and discusse… |
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1798 <p>“What we did here is sort of extending the state of the art,” Mit… |
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1811 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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1812 <category><![CDATA[Angela Sigal Poock]]></category> |
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1813 <category><![CDATA[contact tracing]]></category> |
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1814 <category><![CDATA[Harvard University Health Services]]>… |
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1815 <category><![CDATA[Jonathan Mills]]></category> |
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1816 <category><![CDATA[Keep Harvard Healthy]]></category> |
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1817 <category><![CDATA[Latanya Sweeney]]></category> |
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1820 <description><![CDATA[A look at … |
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1821 … |
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1822 <p>“Some people were really emotional,” she said. “I’ve been on … |
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1823 <p>A registered nurse with <a href="https://huhs.harvard.edu/">Harvard U… |
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1824 <p>“It’s a lot of work. It’s time consuming and whatnot, but to me… |
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1825 <p>Contact tracing is part of <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/coronavir… |
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1826 <p>“If you can remove people from the community while they’re infect… |
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1827 <figure id="attachment_311898" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-311… |
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1828 <p>Mills heads the contact-tracing team, which includes four nurses who … |
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1829 <p>Everyone in the group has been through the Johns Hopkins University c… |
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1830 <p>So far, the campaign has been highly efficient.</p> |
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1831 <p>“Because of the way we’re set up and [because] we’re monitoring… |
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1832 <p>Besides contacting individuals who test positive, tracers also track … |
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1833 <p>Both steps involve phone interviews, which usually last 20 to 30 minu… |
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1834 <p>The initial call from contact tracers is followed by daily monitoring… |
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1835 |
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1836 <p>A lot of the conversations are simply educating people on what comes … |
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1837 <p>“I’d say the bulk of the 20 or 30 minutes with both the case and … |
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1838 <p>Students who live in a dorm and test positive are moved into isolatio… |
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1839 <p>Poock said a big portion of her job is reassuring patients and buildi… |
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1840 <p>“Their reaction was like, ‘Really, you’re not going to call me … |
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1841 <p>“It’s why we do this,” she added.</p> |
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1848 <title>Undergrads creating antiviral treatment for COVID… |
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1849 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/und… |
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1851 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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1852 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:22:10 +0000</pubDate> |
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1853 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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1860 <description><![CDATA[A team of … |
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1861 … |
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1862 <p>Members of Harvard’s International Genetically Engineered Machine (… |
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1863 <p>“Our goal is to make a viral therapeutic that is easily accessible … |
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1864 <p>Using computational tools, and collaborating via Zoom and Slack, the … |
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1865 <p>Building the origami structure involves folding DNA strands into spec… |
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1867 <div class="pull-quote__text">“Our goal is to make a viral the… |
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1868 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Frank D’Agostino ’2… |
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1871 <p>“The DNA origami nanostructure acts as the capsule to protect the c… |
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1872 <p>Inside that DNA origami nanostructure will be a tiny sequence of anti… |
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1873 <p>Utilizing mRNA rather than the antibody itself is significantly less … |
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1874 <p>Using machine learning has been a learning experience, D’Agostino s… |
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1875 <p>“We are trying to translate one-dimensional sequence data into what… |
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1876 <p>The work has emphasized to the students the critical role of computat… |
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1877 |
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1878 <p>To adviser <a href="https://liulab.seas.harvard.edu/prof-jia-liu">Jia… |
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1879 <p>He sees this as a golden opportunity to implement more computational … |
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1880 <p>And since iGEM is offering teams the option of a two-phase project ov… |
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1881 <p>“Things are very different in a virtual setting,” D’Agostino sa… |
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1888 <title>CfA research on twin suns, ’Oumuamua, and Betel… |
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1889 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/cfa… |
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1891 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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1894 <category><![CDATA[‘Oumuamua]]></category> |
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1895 <category><![CDATA[Amir Siraj]]></category> |
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1896 <category><![CDATA[Andrea Dupree]]></category> |
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1897 <category><![CDATA[Avi Loeb]]></category> |
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1898 <category><![CDATA[Betelgeuse]]></category> |
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1899 <category><![CDATA[binary suns]]></category> |
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1900 <category><![CDATA[Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & S… |
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1901 <category><![CDATA[CFA]]></category> |
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1902 <category><![CDATA[sneezing star]]></category> |
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1905 <description><![CDATA[CfA astron… |
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1906 … |
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1907 <h2><strong>A long time ago but not so far, far away</strong></h2> |
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1908 <p>It was an unforgettable scene in the first “Star Wars” movie: You… |
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1909 <p>While a new study from a pair of Harvard astronomers may not have the… |
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1910 <p>In <a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/abac66">The Astrophysic… |
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1911 <p>First, a little info on the sun’s long-lost twin: Loeb and Siraj th… |
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1912 <div class="mceTemp"></div> |
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1913 <p>“The binary companion was [most likely] freed by the gravitational … |
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1914 <p>Siraj and Loeb aren’t the first to theorize a two-star start to the… |
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1915 <p>Many astronomers believe the Oort cloud formed with leftover chunks o… |
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1916 <p>Such a system could also help explain the existence of a potential ni… |
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1917 <figure id="attachment_311471" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3114… |
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1918 <h2><strong>The ‘Oumuamua debate continues</strong></h2> |
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1919 <p>The mystery surrounding our solar system’s first known interstellar… |
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1920 <p>The study rebuts a theory published earlier this year that suggests t… |
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1921 <p>The astronomers also looked at what it would take to form a hydrogen … |
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1922 <p>The debate around ‘Oumuamua started in 2017, when it was first disc… |
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1923 <p>All of this is to say that the truth on ‘Oumuamua is still out ther… |
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1924 <p>“If ‘Oumuamua is a member of a population of similar objects on r… |
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1925 <h2><strong><em>Gesundheit</em></strong><strong> … to a star?</strong>… |
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1926 <p>Betelgeuse, the 10th-brightest star in the night sky and the second-b… |
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1927 <p>Put simply, Betelgeuse kind of sneezed.</p> |
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1959 <p>While researchers think they can account partially for the anomaly, t… |
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1960 <p>What they do know is that Betelgeuse dims every 420 days. But new obs… |
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1985 <p>What if other materials, especially textiles, had this type of shape … |
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1986 <p>Now, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering… |
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1987 <p>The research could help the effort to reduce waste in the fashion ind… |
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1988 <p>“With this project, we have shown that not only can we recycle wool… |
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2023 <p>The key to keratin’s shape-changing abilities is its hierarchical s… |
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2024 <p>“The organization of the alpha helix and the connective chemical bo… |
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2025 <p>When a fiber is stretched or exposed to a particular stimulus, the sp… |
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2026 <p>To demonstrate this process, the researchers 3D-printed keratin sheet… |
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2027 <p>For example, one keratin sheet was folded into a complex origami star… |
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2028 <p>“This two-step process of 3D printing the material and then setting… |
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2029 <p>“Whether you are using fibers like this to make brassieres whose cu… |
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2030 <p><strong> </strong><em>This research is co-authored by Grant Gonzalez… |
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2031 <p><em>It was supported in part by the Harvard University Materials Rese… |
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2048 <category><![CDATA[Department of Human Evolutionary Biol… |
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2049 <category><![CDATA[eLife]]></category> |
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2050 <category><![CDATA[Faculty of Arts and Science]]></categ… |
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2051 <category><![CDATA[Juan Siliezar]]></category> |
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2052 <category><![CDATA[Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project]]>… |
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2053 <category><![CDATA[Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve]]></categor… |
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2054 <category><![CDATA[Liran Samuni]]></category> |
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2055 <category><![CDATA[Martin Surbeck]]></category> |
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2060 <p>In fact, according to a new study led by Harvard primatologists <a hr… |
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2061 <p>The research, <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.59191">published… |
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2062 <p>Analyzing the data, the scientists saw many similarities in the lives… |
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2063 <p>The groups consistently preferred to hunt and feast on two different … |
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2064 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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2065 <div class="pull-quote__text">“The idea is that if our closest… |
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2066 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Liran Samuni</div> |
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2069 <p>Out of 59 hunts between August 2016 and January 2020, the Ekalakala c… |
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2070 <p>“It’s basically like two cultures exploiting a common resource in… |
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2071 <p>Using statistical modeling, the scientists found this behavior happen… |
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2072 <p>The researchers make clear in the paper that they didn’t investigat… |
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2098 <p>“It’s the same population, and it’s neighboring communities,”… |
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2099 <p>The paper amounts to what’s believed to be the strongest evidence o… |
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2100 <p>The researchers believe this paper is only the tip of the iceberg and… |
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2101 <p>One of the main goals driving this work is helping characterize the c… |
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2102 <p>“The idea is that if our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and … |
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2128 <p>Bonobos can play a special role in this mystery. Like chimpanzees, wh… |
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2129 <p>Different Bonobo population groups are known to interact and even sha… |
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2130 <p>The authors of the paper were not much surprised by their findings.</… |
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2131 <p>They had noticed this hunting preference anecdotally, and it’s alre… |
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2132 <p>What excites the researchers about this discovery, however, is that i… |
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2133 <p>“They’re like the missing puzzle piece,” Surbeck said.</p> |
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2134 <p><em>This work was supported by the Max Planck Society and Harvard Uni… |
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2147 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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2148 <category><![CDATA[Christian Rutz]]></category> |
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2149 <category><![CDATA[Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Stud… |
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2152 <description><![CDATA[Researcher… |
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2153 … |
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2154 <p>And researchers have been watching. One group of experts recently coi… |
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2155 <p>“Coordinated global wildlife research during the anthropause will m… |
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2156 <p>Rutz, a biology professor at the University of St. Andrews and a lead… |
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2182 <p>As the president of the International Bio-Logging Society, a group of… |
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2183 <p>“We went into lockdown, but all the while these little tracking dev… |
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2184 <p>In their article, Rutz’s team defined their plan, urged relevant au… |
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2185 <p>Soon they had more than 300 responses from colleagues tracking everyt… |
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2186 <p>Images have flooded social media in recent weeks offering glimpses of… |
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2187 <p>Rutz said scientists have long studied human-wildlife interactions bu… |
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2188 <p>The current closure of large parts of society has returned the world … |
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2276 <p>A team of researchers has been working on an innovative way of sustai… |
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2279 <p>“The small intestine is an amazing organ — it’s the main site o… |
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2280 <p>The GSEL system combines two nature-inspired innovations. The first t… |
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2299 <p>In order to move from pig models into human trials, several hurdles r… |
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2300 <p>“For our studies, safety is a key focus of our work,” said Traver… |
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2323 <p>The robotic systems that currently assist surgeons in laparoscopic su… |
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2324 <p>Wyss Associate Faculty member <a href="https://wyss.harvard.edu/team/… |
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2325 <h2><strong>A mini-robot for micro tasks</strong></h2> |
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2326 <p>To create their miniature surgical robot, Suzuki and Wood turned to t… |
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2328 <p>The mini-LAs are themselves marvels in miniature, built around a piez… |
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2346 <h2><strong>Steadier than a surgeon’s hands</strong></h2> |
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2347 <p>To mimic the conditions of a teleoperated surgery, the team connected… |
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2348 <p>Given the mini-RCM’s success on the tracing test, the researchers t… |
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2350 <p>In addition to its efficacy in performing delicate surgical maneuvers… |
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2351 <p>“The Pop-Up MEMS method is proving to be a valuable approach in a n… |
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2364 <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:22:15 +0000</pubDate> |
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2374 <description><![CDATA[The seduct… |
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2376 <p>And now its seductive powers, its dark history, its health benefits, … |
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2377 <p>The Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer and Professor of the Practice of Non-… |
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2378 <p>Pollan, who worked on his psychedelics book while a Radcliffe fellow,… |
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2379 <p>As he has done in his earlier work, Pollan became a human test subjec… |
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2380 <p>In his book Pollan recounts the day he finally decided to forgo his r… |
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2408 <p>Pollan said he didn’t fully understand how addicted he was to the d… |
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2409 <p>As his work progressed, he also realized that because caffeine is so … |
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2410 <p>During the talk Pollan delved into the science, discussing how the ti… |
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2411 <p>Pollan explains in a section of the audiobook on the substance’s or… |
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2416 <p>In his work, Pollan addresses the question of whether caffeine has be… |
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2417 <p>But Pollan highlights the positives as well. He notes that before the… |
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2437 <p>And the mental edge provided by caffeine helped transform work, he sa… |
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2438 <p>“It’s amazing that we’ve institutionalized a drug for the expre… |
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2439 <p>In the end, where did Pollan finally land on his own caffeine intake?… |
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2449 <title>Vaccine strategy could aid in COVID-19 immunizati… |
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2452 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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2453 <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 17:50:31 +0000</pubDate> |
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2454 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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2455 <category><![CDATA[coronavirus]]></category> |
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2456 <category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category> |
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2457 <category><![CDATA[David Mooney]]></category> |
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2458 <category><![CDATA[Omnivax]]></category> |
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2459 <category><![CDATA[Vaccine]]></category> |
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2460 <category><![CDATA[Wyss Institute]]></category> |
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2463 <description><![CDATA[A biomater… |
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2464 … |
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2465 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">OMNIVAX was inspired by a fundamental… |
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2466 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 40… |
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2467 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Soon after COVID-19 started to spread… |
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2468 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is widely accepted that a safe and… |
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2469 <h2><b>The secrets of OMNIVAXination</b></h2> |
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2470 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using OMNIVAX’s fast and effective … |
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2471 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The researchers believe that OMNIVAX … |
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2499 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wyss Institute recognized the pot… |
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2500 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The uniqueness of the OMNIVAX approac… |
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2501 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then, just like after their normal ac… |
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2502 <h2><b>Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and beyond</b></h2> |
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2503 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taking advantage of the modular natur… |
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2504 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 40… |
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2505 |
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2506 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In </span><i><span style="font-weight… |
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2507 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Besides these first promising observa… |
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2514 <title>Wyss Institute’s improved face shield design hi… |
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2516 |
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2517 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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2518 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:05:32 +0000</pubDate> |
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2519 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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2520 <category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category> |
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2521 <category><![CDATA[Inc.]]></category> |
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2522 <category><![CDATA[Jennifer Lewis]]></category> |
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2523 <category><![CDATA[Lacerta Group]]></category> |
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2524 <category><![CDATA[PPE]]></category> |
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2525 <category><![CDATA[Wyss Institute]]></category> |
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2526 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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2527 |
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2528 <description><![CDATA[The Wyss I… |
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2529 … |
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2530 <p>Local labs, maker spaces, and hobbyists with access to 3D printers ju… |
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2531 <p>But a co-leader of that effort, James Weaver, knew they could do more… |
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2555 |
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2556 <p>“It was wonderful to see everyone coming together to make and deliv… |
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2557 <p>So, Weaver started talking to clinicians at local hospitals, asking w… |
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2558 <h2><strong>Local connections, national impact</strong></h2> |
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2559 <p>The collaborative team co-led by Weaver and Wyss core faculty member … |
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2560 <p>“Early on, when COVID-19 first hit, Lacerta received requests throu… |
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2561 <p>Lacerta provided materials to Weaver’s team for testing and design … |
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2562 <p>To meet the diverse needs of different users, the collaborative team … |
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2563 <p>“A well-designed, affordable face shield, like the Dome Shield, pro… |
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2564 <p>Because the Dome Shield is made of only one material, which Lacerta m… |
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2565 <p>“As the country’s economy reopens and people start to go back to … |
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2566 <h2><strong>Ear savers for life savers</strong></h2> |
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2567 <p>Lacerta isn’t the only manufacturer with whom Weaver has connected … |
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2568 <p>The collaboration has leveraged ACT Group’s state-of-the-art additi… |
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2569 <figure id="attachment_310503" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3105… |
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2570 <p>“ACT Group has been involved in developing and producing various PP… |
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2571 <p>To date, over 30,000 of these accessories have been distributed to do… |
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2572 |
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2573 <p>“All of the designers, researchers, physicians, hospitals, and indu… |
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2574 <p>One of the collaborators who said “yes” early on was Tod Woolf, t… |
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2575 <p>Other members of the Wyss and Harvard face shield and ear saver R&… |
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2576 <p>“This effort exemplifies the proactive, collaborative, can-do attit… |
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2583 <title>Study finds promising results using acupuncture t… |
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2584 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/stu… |
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2585 |
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2586 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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2587 <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate> |
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2588 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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2589 <category><![CDATA[Acupuncture]]></category> |
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2590 <category><![CDATA[Harvard Medical School]]></category> |
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2591 <category><![CDATA[HMS]]></category> |
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2592 <category><![CDATA[inflammation]]></category> |
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2593 <category><![CDATA[Qiufu Ma]]></category> |
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2594 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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2595 |
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2596 <description><![CDATA[Acupunctur… |
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2597 … |
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2598 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the study, published Aug. 12 in </… |
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2599 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Further, the team found that three fa… |
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2600 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This represents a critical step towar… |
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2601 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The scientists caution, however, that… |
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2602 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Our findings represent an importan… |
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2603 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the study, acupuncture stimulation… |
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2604 <p><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ncb… |
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2605 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet, the basic mechanisms underlying … |
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2606 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The new study is an important step in… |
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2607 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 40… |
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2608 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the current study, researchers use… |
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2609 <p>Building on previous research pointing to neurotransmitters’ role i… |
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2611 <div class="pull-quote__text">“If practiced inappropriately, a… |
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2612 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Qiufu Ma</div> |
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2613 </aside> |
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2614 |
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2615 <p>Chromaffin cells are the body’s main producers of the stress hormon… |
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2616 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team wanted to determine the prec… |
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2617 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 40… |
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2618 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Animals treated this way had lower le… |
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2619 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In another experiment, the team deliv… |
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2620 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Animals treated with acupuncture imme… |
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2621 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The findings demonstrate how the same… |
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2622 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This observation underscores the i… |
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2623 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If borne out in further work, Ma adde… |
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2624 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another possible use, Ma said, would … |
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2625 |
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2626 <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other investigators included Shen… |
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2627 <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The work was supported by Nationa… |
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2628 <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additional funding was provided i… |
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2641 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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2642 <category><![CDATA[David Cox]]></category> |
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2643 <category><![CDATA[Department of Molecular and Cellular … |
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2644 <category><![CDATA[Grigori Guitchounts]]></category> |
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2645 <category><![CDATA[Harvard Center for Brain Science]]></… |
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2646 <category><![CDATA[Juan Siliezar]]></category> |
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2647 <category><![CDATA[Neuron]]></category> |
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2648 <category><![CDATA[primary visual cortex]]></category> |
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2651 <description><![CDATA[Harvard ne… |
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2652 … |
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2653 <p>To better understand the relationship between movement and vision, a … |
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2654 <p>The movement-related findings were unexpected, since vision tends to … |
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2655 <p>These results offer a nuanced glimpse into how neural activity works … |
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2656 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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2657 <div class="pull-quote__text">“Neuroscience is entering into a… |
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2658 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Grigori Guitchounts</di… |
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2659 </aside> |
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2661 <p>“It was really surprising to see this type of [movement-related] in… |
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2662 <p>While the scientists weren’t able to definitively say why this happ… |
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2663 <p>“The model explanation for this is that the brain somehow needs to … |
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2664 <p>For the study, Guitchounts teamed up with former Department of Molecu… |
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2665 <p>The typical setup of past experiments on vision worked like this: Ani… |
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2666 <p>Researchers in this latest experiment wanted to explore that, so they… |
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2667 <p>Half of the recordings were taken with the lights on. The other half … |
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2668 <p>The data showed that on average, neurons in the rats’ visual cortic… |
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2696 <p>The team also noticed that the neural patterns in the visual cortex t… |
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2697 <p>Using a machine-learning algorithm, the researchers encoded both patt… |
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2698 <p>The researchers confirmed that the movement signals came from the mot… |
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2699 |
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2700 <p>Furthermore, the scientists pointed out some limitations in their fin… |
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2701 <p>“It’s all to better understand how vision actually works,” Guit… |
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2702 <p><i>This work was supported by the Harvard Center for Nanoscale System… |
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2713 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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2714 <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:37:21 +0000</pubDate> |
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2715 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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2716 <category><![CDATA[blood cancer]]></category> |
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2717 <category><![CDATA[Cell Metabolism]]></category> |
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2718 <category><![CDATA[Chemotherapy]]></category> |
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2719 <category><![CDATA[David Scadden]]></category> |
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2720 <category><![CDATA[resistant cancer cells]]></category> |
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2721 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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2722 |
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2723 <description><![CDATA[Harvard Un… |
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2724 … |
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2725 <p>Harvard University researchers have identified a unique characteristi… |
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2726 <p>“In the cancer field, we usually think about resistance as a concep… |
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2727 <p>Resistant cancer cells are rare, so they are difficult to detect afte… |
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2728 <p>“We studied the cells when the cancer relapsed, which is normally t… |
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2729 <p>The researchers found that the cells left after chemotherapy went thr… |
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2730 <p>“If you look too late, when the relapse has occurred, these changes… |
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2731 |
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2732 <p>When the researchers targeted glutamine metabolism or nucleotide prod… |
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2733 <p>“This opens a whole new set of possibilities for targeting these ce… |
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2734 <p>Currently, several companies are developing potential drugs that inhi… |
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2735 <p>“If you give the inhibitor to patients who have undergone chemother… |
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2736 <p>Beyond leukemia, the researchers believe their approach has broader a… |
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2737 <p><em>This study was supported by Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, T… |
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2744 <title>Emily Balskus wins Waterman Award with $1M in res… |
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2745 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/emi… |
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2746 |
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2747 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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2748 <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate> |
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2749 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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2750 <category><![CDATA[Award]]></category> |
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2751 <category><![CDATA[Bacteria]]></category> |
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2752 <category><![CDATA[Caitlin McDermott-Murphy]]></category> |
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2753 <category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category> |
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2754 <category><![CDATA[Catherine Drennan]]></category> |
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2755 <category><![CDATA[Chemistry]]></category> |
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2756 <category><![CDATA[Chemistry and Chemical Biology]]></ca… |
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2757 <category><![CDATA[Cholesterol]]></category> |
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2758 <category><![CDATA[Colon cancer]]></category> |
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2759 <category><![CDATA[Disease]]></category> |
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2760 <category><![CDATA[Emily Balskus]]></category> |
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2761 <category><![CDATA[FAS]]></category> |
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2762 <category><![CDATA[Gut]]></category> |
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2763 <category><![CDATA[human health]]></category> |
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2764 <category><![CDATA[L-dopa]]></category> |
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2765 <category><![CDATA[metagenomics]]></category> |
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2766 <category><![CDATA[Microbes]]></category> |
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2767 <category><![CDATA[Microbiology]]></category> |
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2768 <category><![CDATA[Microbiome]]></category> |
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2769 <category><![CDATA[National Science Foundation]]></categ… |
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2770 <category><![CDATA[NSF]]></category> |
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2771 <category><![CDATA[Parkinson's disease]]></category> |
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2772 <category><![CDATA[Sethuraman Panchanathan]]></category> |
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2773 <category><![CDATA[therapeutics]]></category> |
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2774 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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2775 |
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2776 <description><![CDATA[Emily Bals… |
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2777 … |
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2778 <p>Far larger than living microorganisms (and far cuter), these cuddly c… |
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2779 <p>“Emily Balskus has opened up novel ways to explore and exploit the … |
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2780 <p>Today, Panchanathan announced that Balskus is one of two recipients o… |
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2781 <p>“I hope that through receiving this award I can help to bring atten… |
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2782 <p>To study microbes, Balskus shifted into the biological realm, but her… |
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2783 <p>“Despite the important roles these organisms play in all habitats, … |
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2784 <p>But in her latest work, Balskus and her team linked genes in the huma… |
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2785 <p>For example, her lab recently discovered how certain microbes break d… |
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2786 <p>Balskus also discovered that some gut microbes can interfere with dru… |
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2787 |
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2788 <p>“Much of our work has focused on elucidating how microbes in this e… |
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2789 <p>The Waterman Award, Balskus said, will allow her research team to tak… |
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2790 <p>But Balskus has more than just scientific ambitions. “I hope that b… |
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2791 <p>“The future of human health, of medicine, needs Emily’s research,… |
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2792 <p>Balskus shares the 2020 Waterman Award with John O. Dabiri, an aerona… |
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2799 <title>Arboretum examines climate change’s impact … |
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2800 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/arb… |
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2802 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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2803 <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2020 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate> |
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2804 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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2805 <category><![CDATA[Al Kovaleski]]></category> |
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2806 <category><![CDATA[Arnold Arboretum]]></category> |
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2807 <category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category> |
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2808 <category><![CDATA[Environments & Sustainability]]></cat… |
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2809 <category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category> |
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2810 <category><![CDATA[Jake Grossman]]></category> |
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2811 <category><![CDATA[maples]]></category> |
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2812 <category><![CDATA[Research]]></category> |
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2813 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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2814 |
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2815 <description><![CDATA[Researcher… |
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2816 … |
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2817 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">Q&A</h2> |
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2818 <h3 class="transcript-header-1 transcript-header-2">Jake Grossman and Al… |
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2819 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>Gazette:</strong></span> Doe… |
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2820 <p><span class="transcript-speaker"><strong>Grossman</strong>:</span> Cl… |
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2821 <p>One way of thinking about this is in terms of “generation time” �… |
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2901 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/new… |
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2903 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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2904 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:50:21 +0000</pubDate> |
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2905 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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2906 <category><![CDATA[carbon storing]]></category> |
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2907 <category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category> |
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2908 <category><![CDATA[Harvard Forest]]></category> |
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2909 <category><![CDATA[Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological R… |
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2912 <description><![CDATA[The rate a… |
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2913 … |
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2914 <p>The study, published today in Ecological Monographs, reveals that the… |
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2915 <p>“It is remarkable that changes in climate and atmospheric chemistry… |
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2950 <p>The volume of data brought together for the analysis — by two dozen… |
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2951 <p>“Our data show that the growth of trees is the engine that drives c… |
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2952 <p>The trees show no signs of slowing their growth, even as they come in… |
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2953 <p>The study revealed other seeds of vulnerability resulting from climat… |
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2954 |
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2955 <p>At Harvard Forest, hemlock-dominated forests were accumulating carbon… |
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2956 <p>The research team also points to extreme storms, suburbanization, and… |
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2957 <p>“Witnessing in real time the rapid decline of our beloved hemlock f… |
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2968 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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2970 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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2971 <category><![CDATA[Alvin Powell]]></category> |
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2972 <category><![CDATA[Arnold Arboretum]]></category> |
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2973 <category><![CDATA[Bacteria]]></category> |
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2974 <category><![CDATA[basic research]]></category> |
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2975 <category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category> |
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2976 <category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category> |
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2977 <category><![CDATA[Kathryn Richardson]]></category> |
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2978 <category><![CDATA[Kristie Tanner]]></category> |
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2979 <category><![CDATA[Michael Dosmann]]></category> |
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2980 <category><![CDATA[new species]]></category> |
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2981 <category><![CDATA[Real Colegio Complutense]]></category> |
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2982 <category><![CDATA[Solar panel]]></category> |
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2983 <category><![CDATA[Sphingomonas solaris]]></category> |
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2984 <category><![CDATA[William Friedman]]></category> |
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2985 <category><![CDATA[Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspi… |
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2986 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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2987 |
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2988 <description><![CDATA[A new spec… |
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2989 … |
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2990 <p>The new species is marked by the presence of colorful carotenoid pigm… |
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2991 <p>Arboretum Director <a href="https://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/people/… |
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2992 <p>“Every time we throw up panels, every time we create new surfaces, … |
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2993 <figure id="attachment_297592" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2975… |
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2994 <p>The bacterium, <em>Sphingomonas solaris</em>, was discovered by Krist… |
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2995 <p>The collecting trip lasted just an afternoon, Tanner said. She took s… |
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2996 <p>“It was a big surprise,” Tanner said. “I’ve been doing biopro… |
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2997 <p>Tanner, assisted by colleagues in Boston and Spain, set about charact… |
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2998 <p>“It’s been very exciting,” she said.</p> |
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2999 <p>Tanner and Friedman said it is most likely that the new species was a… |
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3000 |
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3001 <p><a href="https://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/people/michael-dosmann/">M… |
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3002 <p>Relatively few species have been discovered on the grounds of the Arb… |
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3003 <p>The most recent find, Dosmann said, highlights how little we still kn… |
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3004 <p>“What we’ve written down is a moon-cast shadow to what exists,”… |
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3012 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/har… |
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3014 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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3015 <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:28:32 +0000</pubDate> |
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3016 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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3017 <category><![CDATA[Brigham and Women's Hospital]]></cate… |
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3018 <category><![CDATA[Dries Sels]]></category> |
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3019 <category><![CDATA[Eugene Demler]]></category> |
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3020 <category><![CDATA[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]]></cate… |
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3021 <category><![CDATA[Harvard Medical School]]></category> |
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3022 <category><![CDATA[Hesam Dashti]]></category> |
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3023 <category><![CDATA[Juan Siliezar]]></category> |
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3024 <category><![CDATA[Nature Machine Intelligence]]></categ… |
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3025 <category><![CDATA[NMR spectroscopy]]></category> |
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3026 <category><![CDATA[Olga Demler]]></category> |
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3027 <category><![CDATA[Physics Department]]></category> |
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3028 <category><![CDATA[quantum computers]]></category> |
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3029 <category><![CDATA[Samia Mora]]></category> |
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3032 <description><![CDATA[New quantu… |
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3033 … |
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3034 <p>But the technique has its limits, especially when researchers need to… |
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3035 <p>A trio of doctors and medical researchers from Brigham and Women’s … |
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3036 <p>The researchers from the Medical School enlisted a pair of quantum ph… |
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3037 <p>The hybrid algorithm does, in theory, just what the researchers hoped… |
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3038 <p>The researchers believe the new hybrid algorithm can be one of the fi… |
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3039 <p>In recent years, finding useful applications for existing or near-ter… |
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3040 <p>“We should not just think of applications for perfect quantum compu… |
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3041 <p>The algorithm has only just passed the proof-of-concept stage, accord… |
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3042 <p>Take blood, for example, said paper co-author <a href="https://resear… |
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3043 <p>Doctors could then base treatments, like cancer therapy, off those re… |
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3044 <p>“Having a better understanding of the molecular signatures of disea… |
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3045 <p>Other Harvard researchers who worked on the study included <a href="h… |
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3046 <p>Sels and Demler had been searching for an opportunity like the one pr… |
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3047 <p>For example, to get a spectrogram, biological samples are placed insi… |
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3048 |
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3049 <p>The recorded spectrogram, however, only contains very indirect inform… |
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3050 <p>Using a quantum system takes advantage of its ability to access and c… |
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3051 <p>Hybrid algorithms have been proven to be an effective bridge to solve… |
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3052 <p>“There are three parts to the paper,” said Sels. “All three ing… |
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3053 <p>They tested the algorithm using simple molecules that had only four q… |
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3054 <p>“It probably took us 20 or so years to get to the current stage of … |
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3055 <p><em>Harvard’s <a title="https://otd.harvard.edu/" href="https://otd… |
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3056 <p><em>This work was supported by the Harvard Quantum Initiative, the Na… |
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3091 <p>“I think that a lot of us have gone onto Google search images and t… |
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3092 <p>The spark for the project came in 2016 when Nabiha Saklayen, Ph.D. �… |
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3116 <p>Twelve of the 22 scientists featured in the project are Harvard-train… |
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3138 Noor Al-Alusi </h… |
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3140 <b>Epidemiologist</b><br> |
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3141 <i>University of California, San Francisco</i><br><br> |
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3142 <b>Harvard connection:</b> Studied at T.H. Chan School of Public Health<… |
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3143 <b>“I have a black belt in Taekwondo. When I was in high school, I was… |
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3144 <b>Her work:</b> During the Zika epidemic, Al-Alusi met with communities… |
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3145 <b>She wants to know:</b> What makes diseases spread? How do we make sur… |
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3146 <b>Background:</b> Al-Alusi was born in California but her parents emigr… |
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3147 <b>Loves:</b> Human rights, adventure, fashion, public health, travel<br… |
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3148 <a href="https://www.iamascientist.info/noor-al-alusi">Learn more about … |
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3159 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">An adventurous sports fan studying how b… |
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3175 </figure> |
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3179 Ryoji Amamoto </h… |
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3180 <div class="photo-layout__text-content"> |
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3181 <b>Neurobiologist</B><br> |
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3182 <i>The Cepko Lab, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School</i><br>… |
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3183 <b>“I’m a huge sports fan. I study animals that can regrow their bra… |
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3184 <b>His work:</b> Amamoto studies the tiny but amazing brains of animals … |
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3185 <b>He wants to know:</b> How is it possible for some animals to regenera… |
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3186 <b>Background:</b> Amamoto lived in Japan until age 8 when his family mo… |
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3187 <b>Loves:</b> Philosophy, adventure, volleyball, classic guitar, people-… |
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3188 <a href="https://www.iamascientist.info/ryoji-amamoto">Learn more about … |
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3189 </div> |
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3195 <div class="article-body basic-text"> |
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3198 <hr /> |
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3199 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">A soccer-playing musician who wants to k… |
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3215 </figure> |
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3217 <div class="photo-layout__text"> |
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3218 <h2 class="photo-layout__text-heading"> |
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3219 Rodrigo Braga </h… |
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3220 <div class="photo-layout__text-content"> |
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3221 <b>Cognitive neuroscientist</b><… |
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3222 <i>Northwestern</i><br><br> |
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3223 <b>Harvard connection:</b> Former postdoctoral fellow, Department of Psy… |
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3224 <b>“I love playing soccer. I got in trouble a lot in school. I was bor… |
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3225 <b>His work:</b> Braga uses fMRI, which is a tool that lets us see the s… |
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3226 <b>He wants to know:</b> How is the brain organized? How do different pa… |
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3227 <b>Background:</b> Braga was born in Brazil but grew up in the U.K. He w… |
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3228 <b>Loves:</b> Philosophy, soccer, video games, playing guitar, spending … |
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3229 <a href="https://www.iamascientist.info/rodrigo-braga">Learn more about … |
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3236 <div class="article-body basic-text"> |
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3239 <hr /> |
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3240 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">An outdoors-loving explorer who is build… |
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3256 </figure> |
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3258 <div class="photo-layout__text"> |
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3259 <h2 class="photo-layout__text-heading"> |
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3260 Wade Campbell </h… |
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3261 <div class="photo-layout__text-content"> |
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3262 <b>Archaeologist</b><br> |
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3263 <i>Doctoral student, Department of Anthropology</i> <br><br><br> |
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3264 <b>“I enjoy exploring landscapes. I’m a good whistler. I grew up in … |
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3265 <b>His work:</b> Campbell studies the history of the American Southwest.… |
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3266 <b>He wants to know:</b> What was the historical relationship between th… |
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3267 <b>Background:</b> Campbell grew up in the Four Corners region of Arizon… |
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3268 <b>Loves:</b> Biking, soccer, camping, global music, sci-fi and fantasy<… |
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3269 <a href="https://www.iamascientist.info/wade-campbell">Learn more about … |
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3279 <hr /> |
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3280 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">A party-loving doctor who’s fighting t… |
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3294 </div> |
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3296 </figure> |
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3298 <div class="photo-layout__text"> |
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3299 <h2 class="photo-layout__text-heading"> |
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3300 Yamicia Connor </… |
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3301 <div class="photo-layout__text-content"> |
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3302 <b>Physician Scientist</b><br> |
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3303 <i>Beth Israel</i><br><br><br> |
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3304 <b>“I once competed in a robot competition. I love Beyoncé. I started… |
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3305 <b>Her work:</b> Connor is a doctor at a hospital in Boston where she st… |
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3306 <b>She wants to know:</b> How do we tackle cancers that specifically aff… |
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3307 <b>Background:</b> Growing up in Florida, Connor was a serious kid who s… |
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3308 <b>Loves:</b> Entertaining friends, volleyball, cooking, relaxing at hom… |
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3309 <a href="https://www.iamascientist.info/yamicia-connor">Learn more about… |
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3319 <hr /> |
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3320 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">A marathon-running champion for women wh… |
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3336 </figure> |
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3339 <h2 class="photo-layout__text-heading"> |
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3340 Francesca Dominici … |
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3341 <div class="photo-layout__text-content"> |
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3342 <b>Biostatistician</b><br> |
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3343 <i>Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; co-director, Harvard Data … |
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3344 <b>“I love fashion. I believe women in power have a responsibility to … |
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3345 <b>Her work:</b> Dominici works in a lab filled with people, charts, gra… |
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3346 <b>She wants to know:</b> What environmental factors threaten our health… |
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3347 <b>Background:</b> Dominici grew up in Italy in a small neighborhood out… |
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3348 <b>Loves:</b> Fashion, marathons, cooking, parties and entertaining, men… |
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3349 <a href="https://www.iamascientist.info/francesca-dominici">Learn more a… |
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3350 </div> |
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3359 <hr /> |
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3360 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">A nature-loving professor and museum cur… |
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3376 </figure> |
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3380 Scott Edwards </h… |
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3381 <div class="photo-layout__text-content"> |
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3382 <b>Ornithologist</b><br> |
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3383 <i>Harvard University & Museum of Comparative Zoology</i><br><br><br> |
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3384 <b>“My training as a biologist helped me see the beauty in the world. … |
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3385 <b>His work:</b> Edwards works in many settings: in the outdoors, search… |
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3386 <b>He wants to know:</b> How did birds and other forms of life evolve? W… |
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3387 <b>Background:</b> Edwards was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, but grew up in … |
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3388 <b>Loves:</b> Nature, hiking, 1970s pop music, conservation, science edu… |
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3389 <a href="https://www.iamascientist.info/scott-edwards">Learn more about … |
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3390 </div> |
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3400 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">A singing, dancing biologist who wants t… |
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3420 Cassandra Extavour … |
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3422 <b>Developmental biologist</b><b… |
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3423 <i>Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Department of Mole… |
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3424 <b>“I am classical singer. I wanted to be a pastry chef as a kid. In m… |
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3425 <b>Her work:</b> Extavour runs a lab filled with white boards, microscop… |
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3426 <b>She wants to know:</b> How do humans and other living things work? An… |
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3427 <b>Background:</b> Extavour was born in Canada but has roots in Trinidad… |
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3428 <b>Loves:</b> Social activism, sci-fi movies, salsa dancing, singing cla… |
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3429 <a href="https://www.iamascientist.info/cassandra-extavour">Learn more a… |
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3440 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">A soccer-playing, art-loving biochemical… |
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3460 Daniele Foresti <… |
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3462 <b>Mechanical engineer</b><br> |
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3463 <i>John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences</i><br><br… |
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3464 <b>“I can be a total drama queen. I loved playing Legos as a kid. My m… |
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3465 <b>His work:</b> Foresti works in a lab filled with 3D printers, bottles… |
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3466 <b>He wants to know:</b> How do we create tools that allow us to print a… |
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3467 <b>Background:</b> Raised in Italy, Foresti didn’t expect to go to col… |
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3468 <b>Loves:</b> Science art, trendy hats and glasses, documentaries, pick-… |
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3469 <a href="https://www.iamascientist.info/daniele-foresti">Learn more abou… |
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3470 </div> |
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3480 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">A music-loving sports fanatic who create… |
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3500 David Kelley </h2> |
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3502 <b>Computational biologist</b><b… |
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3503 <i>Calico</i><br><br> |
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3504 <b>Harvard connection:</b> Former postdoctoral research fellow in stem c… |
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3505 <b>“I got into statistics so I could beat my friends at fantasy sports… |
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3506 <b>His work:</b> Kelley uses math, computer science, and a lot of coding… |
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3507 <b>He wants to know:</b> Can we use machine learning to understand how l… |
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3508 <b>Background:</b> Kelley grew up in a small town in New Jersey. He love… |
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3509 <b>Loves:</b> Playing hockey and snowboarding, going to concerts, hiking… |
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3510 <a href="https://www.iamascientist.info/david-kelley">Learn more about K… |
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3521 <h2 class="transcript-header-1">A surfing, dancing entrepreneur who uses… |
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3543 <b>Biophysicist</b><br> |
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3544 <i>Cellino</i><br><br> |
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3545 <b>Harvard connection:</b> Earned Ph.D. in applied physics here<br><br><… |
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3546 <b>“I thought I was going to be a journalist. I have four sisters. I t… |
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3547 <b>Her work:</b> Madrid works as both a scientist and an entrepreneur. S… |
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3548 <b>She wants to know:</b> How can we apply physics to improve health car… |
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3549 <b>Background:</b> Madrid loved to clean and organize growing up. She wa… |
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3550 <b>Loves:</b> Mexican food, hiphop dance, animals, learning new instrume… |
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3551 <a href="https://www.iamascientist.info/marinna-madrid">Learn more about… |
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3584 <b>Medical geneticist</b><br> |
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3585 <i>Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health</i><br><br><br> |
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3586 <b>“I study things that are so small you need a microscope to see them… |
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3587 <b>Her work:</b> Animals, plants, humans, and even microbes all have gen… |
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3588 <b>She wants to know:</b> What can DNA teach us about viruses? How do we… |
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3589 <b>Background:</b> Sabeti was born in Tehran, Iran, and her family immig… |
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3590 <b>Loves:</b> Being in a rock band, making up new games, playing volleyb… |
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3616 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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3617 <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:52:12 +0000</pubDate> |
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3618 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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3620 <category><![CDATA[food waste]]></category> |
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3621 <category><![CDATA[Harvard John A. Paulson School of Eng… |
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3622 <category><![CDATA[John Schmidt]]></category> |
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3623 <category><![CDATA[Jonas LaPier]]></category> |
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3624 <category><![CDATA[Joseph Sanchez]]></category> |
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3625 <category><![CDATA[Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke]]></category> |
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3626 <category><![CDATA[Mark Meneses]]></category> |
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3631 <description><![CDATA[With the g… |
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3633 <p>A team of <a href="https://www.seas.harvard.edu/">Harvard John A. Pau… |
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3634 <p>The course routinely challenges students to use engineering design sk… |
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3635 <p>After studying the supply chain, the students chose to focus on food … |
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3636 <p>“In order to prevent produce from being discarded, what we need is … |
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3664 <p>To generate those metrics, the students developed a multi-sensing dev… |
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3665 <p>“Saving just a few avocados could help justify the price of our dev… |
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3666 <p>The device they developed incorporates sensors to measure certain che… |
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3667 <p>The app also allows users to view batch stats on avocados that were s… |
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3693 <p>“Ripeness prediction is really difficult for avocados, and because … |
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3694 <p>For instance, retailers could advertise the ripeness states of avocad… |
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3695 <p>The biggest challenge the students faced resulted from the University… |
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3696 <p>And a sudden sensor malfunction during testing threatened to derail t… |
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3697 <p>Despite those challenges, the students created an effective prototype… |
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3698 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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3699 <div class="pull-quote__text">“Because [avocados] are so valua… |
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3700 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeok… |
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3703 <p>“The predictive model worked fairly well, which was great to see be… |
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3704 <p>Instructor Nabil Harfoush, visiting associate professor, was impresse… |
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3705 <p>“My hope is that students learned how to dwell more in the problem … |
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3706 <p>Harjeet Bajaj, president and CEO of Savormetrics, was also impressed … |
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3707 <p>“Savormetrics will be polishing this off and bringing this product … |
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3718 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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3719 <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:56:24 +0000</pubDate> |
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3720 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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3721 <category><![CDATA[Caitlin McDermott-Murphy]]></category> |
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3722 <category><![CDATA[chemical reaction]]></category> |
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3723 <category><![CDATA[Chemistry]]></category> |
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3724 <category><![CDATA[Graduate School of Arts and Sciences]… |
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3725 <category><![CDATA[Kang-Kuen Ni]]></category> |
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3726 <category><![CDATA[lasers]]></category> |
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3727 <category><![CDATA[Molecules]]></category> |
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3728 <category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category> |
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3729 <category><![CDATA[Physics]]></category> |
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3730 <category><![CDATA[potassium rubidium]]></category> |
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3731 <category><![CDATA[Quantum computing]]></category> |
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3732 <category><![CDATA[quantum control]]></category> |
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3733 <category><![CDATA[Quantum mechanics]]></category> |
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3734 <category><![CDATA[ultracold]]></category> |
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3735 <category><![CDATA[Yu Liu]]></category> |
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3737 |
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3738 <description><![CDATA[When scien… |
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3739 … |
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3740 <p>It started last December, when she and her team constructed a new app… |
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3741 <p>With ultracold chemistry, Ni, the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of … |
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3742 <p>But they didn’t just watch.</p> |
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3743 <p>“This thing lives so long that now we can actually mess around with… |
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3744 <p>Like “Star Trek” tractor beams, lasers can trap and manipulate mo… |
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3745 <p>“They prepared these molecules, hoping to realize many of the appli… |
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3746 <p>Alkali atoms, like the potassium and rubidium Ni and her team study, … |
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3747 <p>Scientists speculated that the molecular loss resulted from reactions… |
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3748 <p>“What we found in this paper answers that question,” Liu said. Tu… |
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3749 <p>When Liu and Ni used lasers to manipulate that intermediate complex �… |
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3750 <p>“Basically, if you want to eliminate loss, you’ve got to turn off… |
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3751 |
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3752 <p>Next, Ni wants to see where these complexes go when they disappear. C… |
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3753 <p>They also plan to explore what the complex looks like at various stag… |
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3754 <p>“We hope this will serve as a model system,” Ni said, an example … |
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3755 <p>“This reaction is, like many other chemical reactions, sort of a un… |
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3756 <p><em>Funding support for the project came from the Department of Energ… |
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3768 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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3769 <category><![CDATA[ionic liquid]]></category> |
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3770 <category><![CDATA[John A. Paulson School of Engineering… |
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3771 <category><![CDATA[Psoriasis]]></category> |
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3772 <category><![CDATA[Steroids]]></category> |
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3773 <category><![CDATA[Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspi… |
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3774 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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3775 |
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3776 <description><![CDATA[Researcher… |
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3777 … |
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3778 <p>A team of researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically … |
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3779 <p>“Compared to other technologies that have demonstrated delivery of … |
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3780 <figure id="attachment_309359" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3093… |
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3781 <h2><strong>Running simulations to predict real success</strong></h2> |
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3782 <p>Synthetic siRNAs are non-coding double-stranded RNA molecules that ar… |
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3783 <p>The team at the Wyss Institute and SEAS tackled that challenge using … |
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3784 <p>The team first created a library of different ILs, then tested combin… |
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3785 <p>Because ILs are a fairly new material, predicting their interactions … |
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3786 <figure id="attachment_309360" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3093… |
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3787 <h2><strong>Breaking down barriers</strong></h2> |
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3788 <p>Armed with an effective delivery vehicle, the team then coupled it wi… |
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3789 <p>The mice that were given the NFKBIZ siRNA treatment had reduced epide… |
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3790 <p>“Topical creams have been used to treat skin conditions for hundred… |
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3791 <p>This IL-based delivery platform can be easily scaled up and tuned to … |
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3792 <p>Based on the encouraging results from this study, Mitragotri’s lab … |
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3793 <p>“Many of the innovations that biologists have been using in researc… |
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3794 <p>Additional authors of the paper include Ninad Kumbhojkar and Anvay Uk… |
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3795 <p><em>This research was supported by The Leo Foundation and the Wyss In… |
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3805 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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3808 <category><![CDATA[ARMMs]]></category> |
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3809 <category><![CDATA[ARRDC1-mediated microvesicles]]></cat… |
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3810 <category><![CDATA[Blavatnik Biomedical Accesserator]]><… |
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3811 <category><![CDATA[Caroline Perry]]></category> |
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3812 <category><![CDATA[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public He… |
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3813 <category><![CDATA[large-molecule drugs]]></category> |
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3814 <category><![CDATA[Office of Technology Development]]></… |
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3815 <category><![CDATA[Quan Lu]]></category> |
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3816 <category><![CDATA[Vesigen Therapeutics]]></category> |
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3817 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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3818 |
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3819 <description><![CDATA[The startu… |
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3820 … |
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3821 <p>Through an exclusive license agreement with Harvard, Vesigen will dev… |
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3822 <p>“We can harness the capability of these vesicles, called ARMMs” �… |
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3823 <p>Vesigen launches with $28.5 million in Series A investment led by Lea… |
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3824 <p>More than 80 percent of identified and biologically validated drug ta… |
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3825 <figure id="attachment_309271" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3092… |
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3826 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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3827 <div class="pull-quote__text">“We can harness the capability o… |
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3828 <div class="pull-quote__attribution">— Quan Lu, Harvard Chan S… |
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3829 </aside> |
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3830 |
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3831 <p>The advance could enable the development of new therapeutics for nume… |
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3832 <p>Using his lab’s technology, Lu said, “If you want to deliver a th… |
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3833 <p>“ARMMs have the potential to solve some truly vexing problems for t… |
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3834 <p>In Lu’s lab, the work began a decade ago. From a postdoc at Stanfor… |
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3835 |
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3836 <p>A protein called ARRDC1 (arrestin domain containing protein 1), close… |
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3837 <p>“Once we figured that out, we thought, well, if cells can transfer … |
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3838 <p>With funding and strategic advising from the Blavatnik Biomedical Acc… |
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3839 <p>“The support from the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator was critical… |
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3840 <p>Lu is a cofounder of Vesigen and will serve on the company’s scient… |
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3841 <p>“My lab did not set out to find a therapeutic cure or a method to d… |
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3842 <p>Entrepreneur Robert Millman will lead the company as cofounder and CE… |
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3843 <p>“Many biotechs today, including some that I’ve worked with, have … |
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3844 <p>Vesigen has named Morningside Ventures’ Gerald Chan, S.M. ’75, S.… |
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3853 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/pro… |
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3854 |
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3855 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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3856 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:32:29 +0000</pubDate> |
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3857 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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3858 <category><![CDATA[Dana-Farber Cancer Institute]]></cate… |
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3859 <category><![CDATA[Prostate Cancer]]></category> |
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3860 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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3861 |
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3862 <description><![CDATA[Prostate c… |
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3863 … |
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3864 <p>The study, an international collaboration with <a href="https://urld… |
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3865 <p>The insight, gained from one of the largest studies of charting the e… |
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3866 <p>The discovery reflects the crafty, efficient nature of cancer’s sur… |
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3867 <p>“As the cancer cell searches for ways to grow and metastasize, it a… |
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3868 <p>“We were amazed to see this was a universal phenomenon, shared by a… |
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3869 <p>Prostate cancer can be viewed as an epigenetic disease. Epigenetics… |
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3870 <p>The investigators say that the study produced the largest epigenomic … |
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3871 <p>The researchers analyzed 268 sets of epigenetic data from patient-der… |
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3872 <p>“This work has been the result of many years of intense internation… |
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3873 <p><em>This study was funded by Rebecca and Nathan Milikowsky, a Prostat… |
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3874 <p><em>The Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer SPORE (grant P50 CA097186),… |
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3882 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/the… |
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3883 |
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3884 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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3885 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:01:57 +0000</pubDate> |
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3886 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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3887 <category><![CDATA[goosebumps]]></category> |
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3888 <category><![CDATA[hair growth]]></category> |
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3889 <category><![CDATA[Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology]]>… |
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3890 <category><![CDATA[Stem Cells]]></category> |
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3891 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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3892 |
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3893 <description><![CDATA[Researcher… |
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3894 … |
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3895 <p>In a new study, Harvard University scientists have discovered the rea… |
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3896 <p>Published in the journal <a href="https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/… |
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3897 <p>“We have always been interested in understanding how stem cell beha… |
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3898 <p>“The skin is a fascinating system: it has multiple stem cells surro… |
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3899 <figure id="attachment_309239" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3092… |
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3900 <h2>A system for regulating hair growth</h2> |
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3901 <p>Many organs are made of three types of tissue: epithelium, mesenchyme… |
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3902 <p>The connection between the sympathetic nerve and the muscle has been … |
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3903 <p>“We could really see at an ultrastructure level how the nerve and t… |
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3904 <p>Next, the researchers confirmed that the nerve indeed targeted the st… |
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3905 <aside class="pull-quote"> |
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3906 <div class="pull-quote__text">The sympathetic nerve reacts to co… |
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3907 <div class="pull-quote__attribution"></div> |
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3908 </aside> |
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3909 |
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3910 <p>The researchers also investigated what maintained the nerve connectio… |
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3911 <h2>How the system develops</h2> |
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3912 <p>In addition to studying the hair follicle in its fully formed state, … |
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3913 <p>“We discovered that the signal comes from the developing hair folli… |
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3914 <h2>Responding to the environment</h2> |
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3915 <p>With these experiments, the researchers identified a two-component sy… |
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3916 <p>“You can regulate hair follicle stem cells in so many different way… |
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3917 <p>In the future, the researchers will further explore how the external … |
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3918 <p>“We live in a constantly changing environment. Since the skin is al… |
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3919 <p><em>This study was supported by the New York Stem Cell Foundation, Sm… |
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3927 <title>Red blood cells could generate immune response vi… |
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3928 <link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/red… |
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3930 <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> |
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3931 <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:05:48 +0000</pubDate> |
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3932 <category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]… |
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3933 <category><![CDATA[Anvay Ukidve]]></category> |
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3934 <category><![CDATA[Donald Ingber]]></category> |
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3935 <category><![CDATA[John A. Paulson School of Engineering… |
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3936 <category><![CDATA[Samir Mitragotri]]></category> |
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3937 <category><![CDATA[SEAS]]></category> |
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3938 <category><![CDATA[Vaccinations]]></category> |
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3939 <category><![CDATA[Vaccines]]></category> |
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3940 <category><![CDATA[Wyss Institute]]></category> |
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3941 <guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.harvard.edu/gazet… |
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3942 |
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3943 <description><![CDATA[New platfo… |
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3944 … |
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3945 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A team of researchers from Harvard’… |
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3946 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This approach successfully slowed the… |
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3947 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The spleen is one of the best orga… |
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3948 <h2><b>A ‘check me out’ signal</b></h2> |
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3949 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using red blood cells as delivery veh… |
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3950 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They coated polystyrene nanoparticles… |
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3979 <h2><b>Effective, adjuvant-free vaccines</b></h2> |
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4021 <p>Harvard researchers compared how 21 human adults and 21 6- to 8-year-… |
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4022 <p>It worked like this: Tiny colored pom-poms were covered with cups and… |
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4023 <p>The game tests the brain’s ability to retain memory of items that a… |
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4024 <p>So how did the parrot fare? Griffin outperformed the 6- to 8-year-old… |
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4025 <p>That’s not bad at all for a so-called bird brain.</p> |
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4051 <p>“Think about it: Grey parrot outperforms Harvard undergrads. That�… |
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4052 <p>Full disclosure: Griffin has been the star of past <a href="https://n… |
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4053 <p>To be fair, the Harvard students did manage to keep (some) of their C… |
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4054 <p>The experiment was part of a study <a href="https://www.nature.com/ar… |
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4055 <p>The researchers were investigating the limits of the brain’s abilit… |
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4085 <p>“We’re suggesting that it’s possible — we can’t prove this … |
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4086 <p>In the paper, the researchers note that future work is needed to conf… |
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4087 <p>“It’s not that we proved everything provable,” Pepperberg added… |
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