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...vegetables can get soft; seafood can be overcooked," he explains. "With its lower temperatures, maybe we can use the Gastrovac to make a better, more foolproof tempura." For the team at the Polytechnic, that kind of interest has been invigorating. "Usually, no one pays any attention to us," says biologist García. "But the chefs have been really interested in what we do." That said, in a department where most of the faculty are dedicated to projects like desalting cod for industrial purposes, Martínez, García and Sanjuan occasionally have to convince their colleagues...
Harvard professors garnered three of this year’s 25 MacArthur “genius grants,” the MacArthur Foundation announced yesterday. Developmental biologist Kevin C. Eggan, surgeon and writer Atul A. Gawande and cosmologist Matias Zaldarriaga are among the diverse group of creative and promising fellows who will be granted $500,000 over the next five years. The MacArthur Foundation, an independent grant-making institution, closely guards the release of its recipient list. The professors were informed last week. “They made me swear on my children not to tell anyone but my wife...
...1970s and 1980s, Szostak studied how cells prevent the loss of crucial genetic information during cell division. He and Elizabeth H. Blackburn, a cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, predicted the presence of the enzyme—now known as telomerase—which allows cells to protect their genome from degradation...
Harvard Professor of Genetics Jack W. Szostak was one of only three scientists who won the 2006 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for discovering an enzyme linked to cancer and aging. A University of Pennsylvania psychologist won the Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research, and a Carnegie Institution cell biologist won the Lasker Award for Special Achievement. Due to an editing error, the Feb. 18 news article, "'American Nobel' For Genetics Professor," misstated the number of recipients of the basic research prize...
...York billionaire. But though Epstein wrote a $6.5 million check to Harvard—with the possibility of additional millions down the line—the University said yesterday that it has no plans to return the gift. The donation, first announced in 2003, finances the work of mathematical biologist Martin A. Nowak, the director of Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Epstein agreed to consider raising his total contribution to $30 million after a review of the program’s progress. That review has not yet taken place, according to the University. After Epstein was charged...