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So doctors may have to become molecular chefs, cooking up new anti-cancer recipes with a growing number of promising drug ingredients. If the number of presentations at ASCO is any indication, their lab cupboards are plenty full of just such compounds. So far, the best cocktails, still in early...
In a report to Nature, the researchers announced that they have found two versions of a specific gene that are associated with varying bone density. One type, which they dubbed "b," is linked with stronger skeletons, and the other, labeled "B," with weaker ones. The gene itself directs construction of...
The tendency for even modest weight gains to trigger diabetes is most likely the genetic legacy from ancestors who had to cope with cruel cycles of feast and famine. Under such conditions, survival favored those genetically blessed with a highly efficient ability to squirrel away calories during times of plenty...
For a scientist who has elucidated a better understanding of the genetic code, Philip Leder ’56, who now acts as chairman of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, says he comes from modest beginnings. A resident of Stoughton Hall his freshman year, Leder, who grew...
To most college students, social life is defined by debauchery: drunken football tailgates, “Anything But Clothes” parties, and meaningless one-night hookups. At Harvard, however, students complain that the outlets for those primal urges are limited. There are Final Clubs for the few who are...