Harvard and U. Pittsburgh researchers explain carbon monoxide's anti-inflammatory effects
... According to t...Harvard team creates spray drying technique for TB vaccine
... The research team led by Yun-Ling...NSF awards Harvard Forest $4.9 million to study landscape change
... Led by Harvard Forest Director David Foster, Harvard researchers and students will collaborate with scientists from the Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Woods Hole Research C...Harvard scientists identify compounds that stimulate stem cell growth in the brain
... The research study focused on two compounds--LTB4 and LXA4. Both p...Students from U of Colorado at Boulder and Harvard triumph in SIAM's Math Contest in Modeling
... The 2006 winners of Problem A, The Continuous Problem: "Positioning and Moving Sprinkler Syste...NJIT professor to address Water Industry Conference At Harvard Club about desalinating water
Chemical engineer Kamalesh Sirkar, PhD, a distinguished professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will discuss Thursday new technologies for desalinating and treating water. Sirkar, an expert in membrane separation technology whose work is supported by grants from the US Department of the Interior and US Office of Naval Research, speaks at 4:30 p.m., June 8, 2006, at the Harvard Cl...Harvard Medical signs agreement with Merck to develop potential therapy for macular degeneration
BOSTON, MA Harvard Medical School announced today that is has signed a multimillion-dollar license agreement with Merck & Co., Inc. to develop potential therapies for macular degeneration, an eye disease that affects older people and can lead to blindness. The agreement provides Merck, through an affiliate, with licenses to specific molecules that could ultimately slow the production of toxic by...CU, Harvard researchers team up to break down causes of Alzheimer's
An enzyme previously associated with preventing the dementia of Alzheimer's disease now appears to play an even bigger role in safeguarding against the disease, bringing the promise of new targets for drug therapies. ... While scientists already knew that the enzyme known as Pin1 can prevent the tangles of knotlike brain lesions associated with Alzheimer's, new research, published in the March 23...Harvard Six Cities Study follow up: Reducing soot particles is associated with longer lives
An eight-year follow up to the landmark Harvard Six Cities Study has found an association between people living longer and cities reducing the amount of fine particulate matter, or soot, in their air. The study has been published in the March 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. ...... The follow-up study found that an average of three percent fewer people d...News conference event and call-in announcing findings from Harvard study on climate change
The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, along with co-sponsors Swiss Re and the United Nations Development Programme, will hold a news conference and teleconference to release findings of a study on climate change and its relationship to health of people, ecosystems and the economy. The study, entitled "Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic...Brown-Harvard team solves mobile DNA's surgical sleight-of-hand
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In a clever bit of biology called site-specific recombination, DNA can travel inside an organism, or into another organism, and perform a sort of grafting surgery that allows it to insert its chromosome into a chromosome of the target cell. The process is important because mobile DNA can carry genes that cause drug resistance or transmit viruses that cause disease or tumors th...Harvard, Texas A&M scientists develop new laser
COLLEGE STATION, Mar. 23, 2005 - Engineers and applied physicists have laid the foundations for a new type of "plug and play" laser -- the Raman injection laser -- and in the process, several key innovations in laser technology. The device combines the advantages of nonlinear optical devices and semiconductor injection lasers with a compact design, and may one day lead to wide-ranging application...Harvard scientists discover how the venus flytrap snaps
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A team of applied mathematicians, physicists, and biologists has discovered how the Venus flytrap snaps up its prey in a mere tenth of a second by actively shifting the curved shape of its mouth-like leaves. Their study, published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Nature, investigates the series of events that occur from the time the plant's leaves are stimulated to the time...Gene for Joubert syndrom with excessive brain folds discovered by UCSD researchers and Harvard team
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered the gene for a form of Joubert Syndrome, a condition present before birth that affects an area of the brain controlling balance and coordination in about 1 in 10,000 individuals. Their study, published in the November 2004 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics*, pointed to mutations in a ge...