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Though Dolly the sheep was the first clone to be shoved into the limelight, in 1996, the process of human-directed cloning has existed since 1952. In that year, American researchers Robert Briggs and Thomas King successfully removed the nucleus of a tadpole's embryonic cell and transferred it...
Stem cell research usually makes news when scientists use it to grow something. Take, for example, this week’s story about the successful transplantation of a windpipe grown from stem cells. But while transplantation is “a very exciting application of stem cells,?...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith gave professors their first full briefing on the implications of the current financial crisis yesterday, highlighting the need for cutbacks but leaving some confusion regarding what specific savings measures will be employed by the University.
Professor Niall Ferguson argued that the current economic crisis developed largely as a result of widespread ignorance of financial history, while speaking to a packed house at the Harvard Book Store last night to promote his new book, “The Ascent of Money.” Ferguson faulted...
Harvard may be used to bucking national trends, but in math and computer science, its relationship to the national gender gap is more complicated.Nationally, the number of incoming female undergraduates choosing computer science as a major declined 70 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the National Center for Women...