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...Fryer’s lab has garnered a lot of press in publications like Esquire, BusinessWeek, and The New York Times, but he maintains that the project would not be as successful if it weren’t for the graduate and undergraduate students who help...
...It’s no surprise that more Harvard undergraduates defect from the sciences than the other way around. The temptations are strong and many: fewer hours in lab, easier Core courses, a more flexible homework schedule, and Thursday nights free from problem sets. Science concentrators routinely spend more than 15 hours per week in class and lab, while our humanities and social sciences counterparts rarely crack that number...
...nature of science itself. For me, the joy of science in high school was its rigorous approach to knowledge, its entertaining parlor tricks, and a few spectacular teachers. At Harvard, I learned that science has less to do with classroom stink bombs and more to do with performing tedious lab work, deciphering tedious journal articles, and pouring out dozens of lines of tedious algebra. The basics are difficult to learn. Even the smallest headway in research requires enormous personal dedication. And, of course, the field is inherently cumulative, so advanced study necessitates a pyramid of prerequisites...
...Harvard lab takes stem cells from human embryos and substitutes them for brain cells that have died because of Parkinson’s disease. Another tries to make stem cells from skin cells...
...information,” including “technical, procedural help with resources such as stem cell cultures and interactions with experts in fields where we were not experts,” says Ole S. Isacson, a professor of neurology at the Medical School. Isacson’s lab, which is affiliated with the institute, uses embryonic stem cells as substitute neurons for cells that have died in brains afflicted with Parkinson?...