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...think it is good for students to see a live person at the end of this. It’s not just in mice,” says Professor Jerome Ritz, who also spoke that day about his research on graft-versus-host disease at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
Along with the classroom engagement and exposure to implications in actual treatment, the concentration adds a unique academic requirement: one semester’s worth of research...
...concentrators, this is a large part of the experience they hope to gain by joining HDRB. “You can lecture about the topic as much as you want. Lecturing is not as strong a way of teaching as actually [being] involved with research,” says Edward Daniel...
...being able to do hands-on research...it really allows [students] to obtain ownership over the experiments that they do,” says Anderson. “To look at something that no one else has looked at before, so they’re adding to the process that may be in the future be taught in the classroom.” That kind of change is to be expected in a fast-paced field. According to Melton, any new methods of experimentation could be incorporated in a course within a year...
Professor Amy J. Wagers, for example, announced in late January a discovery she and her lab had made which showed that when exposed to proteins that were usually found in the blood of young mice, the blood of old mice became younger as well. In other words, her research was able to reverse ageing in the cells of old mice, and it suggests that the diseases that occur as a result of old age could be combated with developments in stem cells...