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...push to use genetic technology to treat diseases in the developing world. “Genetics has not made the contribution to infectious diseases it should have,” said Eric S. Lander, a leader of the Human Genome Project and director of the Broad Institute, a joint venture between Harvard and MIT that specializes in genomics. Lander said genetic applications to medicine have largely focused on “first-world diseases,” such as cancer. The conference, held on Africa Malaria Day at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), explored new ways of combatting...
...student, last at the joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Ph.D program, Alterovitz said he was interested in patient monitoring and eventually began exploring a way to represent complex genetic structures in a more accessible format. Ultimately, this led him to music...
...campaign, announced Wednesday afternoon in Columbia, S.C., on the eve of the first debate among Democratic Presidential candidates, is the joint project of two of the biggest education philanthropies in the nation: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. Each is putting up $30 million to promote a grassroots, multimedia campaign - creating probably the biggest single-issue war chest in American campaign history. Once the world leader in high school graduation rates, the U.S. now ranks 19th, according to one study. "The future of this country is dependent on kids getting a great education...
...ways," says a U.S. State Department official, "it was the resurgence of nationalism that justified the resurgence of the right." Gorbachev has replaced his original team of reformers with hacks from the party Central Committee. He has shown the fist to separatists in the Baltics, and he has put joint army and police patrols onto the streets of the cities...
CORRECTION: The April 20 news article "Police Ponder Safety Concerns" incorrectly implied that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) would lead training sessions for the University's mental health staff in response to the Virginia Tech shootings. In fact, HUPD will only be a participant in the joint training sessions, and the meetings were previously planned...