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For an increasing number of cancer activists, researchers and patients, there is too much death and too much waiting for new drugs and therapies. They want a greater sense of urgency, a new approach that emphasizes translational research over basic research--turning knowledge into therapies and getting them to patients...
Doctors and scientists understand the frustration and the fear, and they don't necessarily mind the nudge. "We do need to change. Something needs to be done differently," says Tyler Jacks, director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. "We have a lot of new...
But this is no time to declare victory. The evacuation of 2 million residents was less a triumph of coordination than a reaction to disaster; nothing says "Get out of Dodge" like the fresh memory of a city under water. It's even more jarring to watch Army Corps of...
The Broad Institute, the Kendall Square-based genomic powerhouse that is affiliated with both Harvard and MIT, will receive a $400 million gift from founding benefactors Eli and Edythe L. Broad, according to several professors affiliated with the institute.
The gift, which would dwarf any donation given to either university, would enable the institute to create its own endowment, something that might allow it to become independent of the two schools.