Elderly Depression
According to a Harvard study, one in seven adult Americans living alone is at greater risk for cardiovascular [MORE]
Staphylococcus aureus VISA
It has been a decade since hospital-acquired vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) was first isolated from the [MORE]
Imaging Red Blood Cells
Using two lasers that excite specific molecules in the skin, a Harvard team has been able [MORE]
Traveling Light
Using different sized fluorescent quantum-dot nanoparticles, scientists at Harvard’s School of Public Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical [MORE]
Tumor Cell
Using a microfluidic chip that researchers at Harvard developed three years ago to capture metastatic prostate cells in [MORE]
Cell Needles
Cell biologists have a number of ways to introduce new molecules across a membrane or wall: e.g. electroporation, [MORE]
Robert Wood
Anyone old enough to remember US Senator William Proxmire’s “golden fleece” awards, can imagine how he would react to [MORE]
TB Detector
Tuberculosis sufferers account for some two billion people worldwide. The disease’s spread is a public health concern of the [MORE]
Last February, philanthropists Phillip and Susan Ragon pledged $100m to create the Ragon Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (in collaboration [MORE]
Dr. George Church
George Church, at Harvard University, recently won the University’s IRB approval to expand its genomic sequencing of volunteer [MORE]
Denator's Protein Stabilizer
Denator AB (Gothenburg, Sweden) has licensed its protein stabilizer equipment to Harvard’s core proteomics laboratory for innovative translational [MORE]
Myography
Using a probe and sensor approach similar to one that evaluates fat in the body, Harvard Medical School neurologist Seward [MORE]
Los Angeles philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, who originally donated $200m to create the Broad Institute at Harvard and [MORE]
Doug Melton
Researchers at Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute have announced their development of means for creating stem cells that are specific [MORE]