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Support on the Cutting Edge

“Jamie Star challenges and enables us to do something important, without being prescriptive about how it’s done,” Douglas Melton, the Xander University Professor and Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor in the Natural Sciences, said Tuesday about the Star Family...
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Behold the mammoth (maybe)

Mammoth DNA in recovered cells frozen for thousands of years is likely too fragmented to clone an animal, according to Harvard geneticist George Church. So he’s working instead to engineer one genetically from a close relative, the Asian elephant. Genetic...
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Connecting Babble to Birdsong

At well-baby visits, when it’s too early to ask about spoken words, I always ask about babble. Read more here.
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Six decades of science as diplomacy

When you think of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland, you may think of cutting-edge equipment and particles circling unimaginably fast, colliding into each other to make bosons and other elements of the secrets of the universe. But you may...
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ETHAN GARNER RECEIVES NIH NEW INNOVATOR AWARD

Ethan Garner, an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, is a recipient of the 2014 National Institute of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award . Established in 2007, the New Innovator Award Initiative supports...
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Harvard Professor Receives Nemmers Mathematics Prize

Michael J. Hopkins, one of the world’s pre-eminent algebraic topologists and a professor of mathematics at Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2014 Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics, Northwestern University announced today. Read more...
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