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...military served as a foundation for citizenship and a pathway to full participation in American life,” she said, citing the importance of military service to black Americans and women in their struggles for equality...
...hippocampus begins to malfunction early in Alzheimer's disease. Imaging studies have shown that people with Alzheimer's typically have smaller than average hippocampi. Meanwhile, as the hippocampus is shrinking, the pathway between it and the prefrontal cortex also begins to degrade. Signals peter out and fade away, and questions take their place: Do I know you? Who am I? But it's not just with Alzheimer's: the hippocampus also goes at least somewhat awry in normal memory loss. "It's relatively stable in volume till about 60," Harvard neuroscientist Randy Buckner explains, "and then begins to change. People...
...will provide “significant” funding over three years, with the possibility of an extension at the end, for research in the laboratory of Harvard School of Public Health Professor Laurie H. Glimcher ’72. Glimcher’s groundbreaking research revealed a new pathway that regulates the cells that build bones, and indicated that a particular disruption in this pathway in mice resulted in the acceleration of bone formation. Her research could open new avenues to treat or prevent osteoporosis, a disease that affects approximately 75 million people worldwide according to a statement issued...
...class consists of Monday lectures and Wednesday class discussions of medical literature related to the metabolic pathway taught that week. These sessions will be taught in parallel in classrooms in Cambridge and on the Longwood campus, with video-conferencing apparatus connecting...
...Fridays, the class will apply the week’s discussion on the specific metabolic pathway to real-life, bringing in a patient who is suffering from a disease related to that metabolic pathway. According to Michel, because of patient confidentiality issues, undergrads will have to travel to HMS for the Friday lectures...