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Harvard Medicine
From this helical molecule, scientists such as William Shih tease out insights into design, stability, and self-assembly and use them to devise medical aids and treatments that are biologically effective, efficient, and sustainable...

Europapress.es
Bioingenieros de la http://wyss.harvard.edu/admin/addeditnewsitem/273Universidad de Harvard han identificado, por primera vez, el mecanismo de la lesión axonal difusa y han explicado por qué el vasoespasmo cerebral es más común en las lesiones cerebrales inducidas por explosiones que en las lesiones cerebrales sufridas por los civiles...

Terra Daily
MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that could be used to rewrite the genetic code of a living cell, allowing them to make large-scale edits to the cell's genome...

Diario Salud
Bioingenieros de la Universidad de Harvard han identificado, por primera vez, el mecanismo de la lesión axonal difusa y han explicado por qué el vasoespasmo cerebral es más común en las lesiones cerebrales inducidas por explosiones que en las lesiones cerebrales sufridas por los civiles...

U.S. News and World Report
Parker met soldiers who were the recipients of more than a dozen blasts, and a 2008 study by the RAND Corporation found that nearly 20 percent of troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan reported suffering from TBIs -- traumatic brain injuries -- during combat...

Laboratory Equipment
In the past week, Parker and colleagues published two papers that identify a protein that transforms the mechanical force of a blast into neuron damage, causing a TBI...

Medical Xpress
Bioengineers at Harvard have identified, for the very first time, the mechanism for diffuse axonal injury and explained why cerebral vasospasm is more common in blast-induced brain injuries than in brain injuries typically suffered by civilians...

Harvard Gazette
Bioengineers at Harvard have, for the first time, explained how the blast of an exploding bomb can translate into subtly disastrous injuries in the nerve cells and blood vessels of the brain...

e! Science News
Bioengineers at Harvard have identified, for the very first time, the mechanism for diffuse axonal injury and explained why cerebral vasospasm is more common in blast-induced brain injuries than in brain injuries typically suffered by civilians.

Technology Review
Scientists have discovered a mechanism underlying the type of brain injury that soldiers often suffer as a result of roadside explosions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The work could point the way toward early treatment for these acute blast injuries by identifying potential drug targets...

Astrobiology Magazine
MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that could be used to rewrite the genetic code of a living cell, allowing them to make large-scale edits to the cell’s genome. Such technology could enable scientists to design cells that build proteins not found in nature, or engineer bacteria that are resistant to any type of viral infection...

MIT News
MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that could be used to rewrite the genetic code of a living cell, allowing them to make large-scale edits to the cell’s genome. Such technology could enable scientists to design cells that build proteins not found in nature, or engineer bacteria that are resistant to any type of viral infection.

Mass High Tech
Not to be outdone by Thursday’s gene therapy announcement from the Whitehead Institute, researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and Harvard Medical School have published an article on technology that can overwrite specific pieces of DNA in an entire genome...

Harvard Gazette
The power to edit genes, according to Harvard Medical School Professor George Church, adds functionality to a cell by encoding for useful new amino acids, introduces safeguards that prevent cross-contamination between modified organisms and the wild, and establishes multiviral resistance by rewriting code hijacked by viruses...

New York Times
Synthetic biology, the quest to hijack living systems and convert them to human-directed goals, is on the march. Last year biologists synthesized the entire genome of a small bacterium and showed how it could successfully infect a second bacterium...

Chemistry & Industry

Last year, only 21 new drugs were approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), down from 26 in 2009 and a huge drop from the late-1990s when as many as 53 new molecular entities were given the go ahead in a single year. Reducing the high cost of drug testing methods - while also improving their accuracy - could help reverse this trend...

Harvard Focus
Welcome to the HMS Idea Lab, a virtual laboratory for sharing thoughts and opinions on academic medicine, education, research and more. The following question was posed to a small group of HMS faculty members...

CNN [Video]
Major Kit Parker is a Harvard bioengineer and an Afghanistan veteran. His target - fighting traumatic brain injuries...