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Timothy Swager (MIT) Delivers Max Tishler Prize Lecture
On Thursday, October 9 Professor Timothy M. Swager delivered his Max Tishler Prize Lecture entitled "Electronic Molecular Materials for High-Performance Chemical Sensors." The Max Tishler Prize Lectureship, established in 1951 through a gift from Merck...
News: Annabel’s army
Harvard scientists help parents of 10-year-old patient escalate fight against rare neurological disorder Nina Frost knows that she might be too late to cure her daughter, but she keeps up the fight — one day, her work might transform the life of another...
Liu wins NIH foundation prize for gene editing discoveries
Molecular biologist David Liu has won the newly established Montrone-Seigel Prize for Biological Sciences from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health for his breakthrough discoveries in gene editing. “I’m deeply honored by this recognition...
Nobel Laureate Steven Chu Warns of ‘Titanic’ Climate Challenge
On Monday, Nobel laureate and former U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu delivered a wide-ranging and urgent lecture, warning that the world is on track for catastrophic levels of warming, calling for a new era of scientific innovation and policy action to...
CCB Student Profile: A Scientist and a Survivor
Patryk Kozlowski was finishing his fall exams as a junior at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) when he learned he had leukemia. A young athlete and a burgeoning scientist, Kozlowski was stunned. Only weeks later, though, he faced even...
New research: Prime editing treats childhood brain disease in mice
By the time they are a few months old, infants born with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) begin experiencing terrifying episodes of paralysis and seizures, and will soon show developmental delays and intellectual disability. There is no cure or...
New research: Designing Better Brain Shunts
Millions of people worldwide suffer from hydrocephalus, or a buildup of excess cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, and which recently received greater attention when Billy Joel announced his diagnosis . Treatment usually involves surgical placement of...
New research: Balloon takes wildfire surveillance to the stratosphere
Researchers at Harvard University have lofted a sensor-packed balloon 15-20 kilometers above Earth to spot wildfires sooner and track their heat and smoke with unprecedented clarity. The system is sharper and more persistent than standard satellites. In a...
CCB Alumnus: Art collection now shines in Harvard Art Museums
For decades, scores of paintings by 20th-century masters shared shelf space with family photos, books, and knickknacks in the Cambridge home of Arthur and Marny Solomon. Works by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cézanne hung on their walls. And in a...
New research: Forecasting the next variant
When the first reports of a new COVID-19 variant emerge, scientists worldwide scramble to answer a critical question: Will this new strain be more contagious or more severe than its predecessors? By the time answers arrive, it’s frequently too late to...
Alumna Q&A: Is the secret to immortality in our DNA?
It’s your typical biotech love story: A couple of eager Harvard students stumble upon a brilliant scientific breakthrough in anti-aging, drop out of school to pursue their dream, experience a fast and furious rise to fame before … well, we won’t give the...
New research: Solution to AC use surge
Today, systems that cool buildings account for as much as 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That may seem like a small fraction, but it’s significant: double the emissions associated with all air travel, for example. As the world gets hotter...
