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...started,” Golan said. There is currently little interaction among the seven individual graduate programs, Golan said. Four of the Ph.D programs are based in the Medical School Quadrangle in the Longwood Medical Area, and the remaining three—biophysics, chemical biology, and systems biology??are University-wide initiatives. Golan said that he hopes to identify and revamp components of the curriculum that are currently “relatively underdeveloped.” Although Golan said he does not know what these areas are at this point, he added that department chairs have been very...
...courses for a general audience. The environmental science course Science B-35: “How To Build a Habitable Planet” will count toward Gen Ed’s Science of the Physical Universe requirement. Life and Physical Sciences A: “Foundational Chemistry and Biology?? was approved for the Science of Living Systems category. On the humanities side, folklore and mythology professor Maria Tatar’s popular Core class, Literature and Arts A-17: “Childhood: Its History, Philosophy, and Literature,” will fulfill either the Aesthetic and Interpretive...
...evolution of cooperation is one of the big topics in evolutionary biology??how cooperation can evolve in spite of the cost of being generous,” said Pat Barclay, a neurobiology professor at Cornell...
...part of a larger team taking a unique approach to studying reverse transcription in hopes that approaching it from the perspective of structural biology??the study of the shape of biological molecules—will provide insights into treating lethal diseases, including AIDS and leukemia...
...announce within the next few months, perhaps weeks, that he and his company, Synthetic Genomics of Rockvile, Md. and La Jolla, Calif., have created Earth’s first artificial life form. The feat will be an important milestone in the growing scientific world of “synthetic biology?? (synbio). If you haven’t heard of synthetic biology yet, you are not alone. Research in this groundbreaking field is advancing light years ahead of public awareness, but decisions made now will have implications for everyone within the next few decades.Synthetic biology will be a fact...