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...research center, we carry out an important role in developing innovative health technologies that can have an enormous potential impact around the globe. Inventions produced today in Harvard laboratories may lead to revolutionary new treatments, not just for neglected diseases, but for conditions such as AIDS, heart disease, and cancer, which are problems for developing and developed countries alike. Publicly funded research, carried out at institutions like Harvard, produces key inputs to the drug development pipeline: In the past century, 15 out of the 21 most important therapeutic drugs were developed with public funds...
...building—who pointed out 11 separate tagging sites on the building. BPD spokesman Joseph Zanoli said that the vandalism is believed to have taken place between 6 p.m. on Thursday and 6 a.m. on Friday. The incident is currently being investigated by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC), which “focuses on the intersection of high impact criminal activities, locations, and people,” according to the Boston Police Department Web site. Zanoli said that BRIC’s involvement with this case suggests that the incident was the result of gang activity...
...should be taught in schools. Creationists will point out that the Darwin love-fest among scientists amounts to little more than devotion to a religious leader, reinforcing the views of the nearly half of Americans who don’t believe in evolution anyway. The display in the Science Center prepared by the UK-based Darwin 200 in February seemed to anticipate this debate, as one of the panels debunks a list of creationist myths about evolution. [See correction below...
This column incorrectly stated that the UK-based organization Darwin 200 had prepared an educational evolution display in the Science Center in February. In fact, the panels were put together by students from the Harvard Undergraduate Biological Sciences Society and the Organismic and Evolutionary Undergraduate Group. The Crimson regrets the error...
...took classes in French and Italian cooking last summer. The first stop was the former home of chef Julia Child—credited with popularizing French cuisine among an American audience—on 103 Irving St., just a few blocks east of the Science Center. Although the students could not enter the historic three-story abode, as it is now a private residence, they circulated a photograph of Child’s kitchen, which was moved in its entirety to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. three years before her death in 2004. Two blocks...