Harvard Stem Cell Institute hosts inaugural symposia
Cambridge, MA (April 23, 2004)--Seven Harvard schools, seven Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, and close to 100 researchers and scientists are banding together in an ambitious new institute with a simple goal: to explore the promising area of stem cell research. ... ... The Harvard Stem Cell Institute holds its inaugural symposia today comprised of a day-long series of presentations for the...Harvard Medical School launches new department to study human biology at the level of whole systems
Boston, Mass. (Sept. 23, 2003)--Harvard Medical School today makes a significant commitment to the emerging field of systems biology in announcing the creation of the Department of Systems Biology (DSB), one of the first department-level systems biology programs in the nation. Systems Biology seeks to build from our current knowledge of genetic and molecular function to an understanding of how a...Harvard Medical School consortium receives grant to harness microbe genomes for environment/energy
Boston, MA--Harvard Medical School, in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Partners HealthCare, is today the recipient of a $15 million, five-year grant that will be used to study three bacteria each with unique properties important to the environment and energy production. Knowledge from this project may allow researchers to engineer microorganisms as miniature machin....Researchers led by University of California, San Francisco and Harvard School of Public Health are reporting the largest randomized trial among HIV-1 infected persons conducted during the 1990s. The compound tested in the trial, intended to boost the immune response of HIV patients, had no effect on slowing disease progression, the research team reports. . .The researchers and their colleagues...Harvard Medical School researchers discover first in a new class of mitosis inhibitors
. . .Boston, MA -- October 25, 1999 -- Nine months after the Harvard Medical School.Institute for Chemistry and Cell Biology (ICCB) opened its doors, its.researchers are reporting their first success. In the October 29 Science, they.describe how they used a series of screens to fish out of a library of chemical.compounds the first known small-molecule inhibitor to a motor protein involved.in cel....MIAMI BEACH, FL, Oct. 25, 1999 -- Researchers from the Harvard Medical School.and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALXN) today reported that the.transplantation of immunoprotected pig neurons into non-human primate models of.Parkinson's disease resulted in successful engraftment and function of the.transplanted cells. Presented here at the 29th Meeting of the Society for.Neuroscience, th...Harvard expert speaks on lead toxicity to chemists' meeting in New Orleans
."Two Millennia of Lead Toxicity: Have We Learned Our Lesson at Last?" is the.topic of a speech to the American Chemical Society Monday, August 23, by Dr..Jeremy Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Amory Houghton.Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Harvard University. The ACS, the.world's largest scientific society, is holding its 218th national meeting in New.Orleans......BOSTON--February 24, 1998--Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified.four human genes that serve a critical role in cell division. The findings.provide a new target for anticancer agents, which may result in fewer.therapeutic side-effects.. . Hongtao Yu, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Marc Kirschner,.the Carl W. Walter professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical...BOSTON--A team of Harvard Medical School researchers have established the 3-D,...atom-by-atom structure of a DNA-replicating enzyme at work. This protein, called...T7 DNA polymerase, is used in scientific laboratories throughout the world to...sequence DNA. This structure will be of special interest to researchers who...develop drugs targeting DNA replication. Many antiviral drugs, including the...Harvard, Duke Researchers Discover 'Off-switch' Inside Human Cells
.DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers from Harvard University and the Duke University.Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered evidence for a new kind of "off-switch".inside human cells that can deactivate one of the cell's most prevalent.biochemical mechanisms for responding to chemical stimuli such as hormones. . .The scientists believe their basic discovery could eventually lead to new.ways to "tur...