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...each kind of cancer is a laborious and costly process. “Millions and millions of dollars are spent just to recognize mutations in a few cancers when ideally, you would want to know that information for the whole spectrum of cancers,” said the study??s senior author, Levi A. Garraway, an instructor in medicine at Dana-Farber. A second challenge, according to Garraway, is the “bottleneck” that occurs when trying to put our expanding knowledge of how genetic mutations cause cancer into practice in the clinic...
...pressure are also benefits of getting enough sleep, which, according to Irwin, is nearly 7.2 hours for the average person. Irwin added that napping has historically received little attention compared to diet, which is also crucial to heart health. Katherine A. Koh ’09 agreed with the study??s conclusions. “I’m not surprised at all,” said Koh. “A lack of sleep now will certainly have negative consequences eventually.” While the conclusions apply particularly to its male subjects, a correlation between gender...
...28th president, reiterated many of the points she made at a news conference on Sunday. She emphasized her desire to lead Harvard’s expansion into Allston and to improve undergraduate education. While Faust—currently the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study??stressed that she was not picked because of her gender, she did acknowledge the significance of her selection as Harvard’s first female president. “It symbolizes important changes in the place of women in higher education,” she said...
...view a character’s moral worth really depends on how much experience we perceive them to have. The more experience and worth, the more we would worry about hurting them,” said Kurt J. Gray, a Ph.D candidate in psychology and the study??s co-author. “Determining if someone has agency dictates if we hold them accountable for their actions.” Participants in the survey were asked to rank fictional characters based on what they believed the characters’ capacities were for sensations like rage and desire...
...results released last week are significant in light of current public policy debates about obesity, said the study??s lead author James I. Hudson, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Program at McLean Hospital...