Media Coverage

Eco Worldly
Bacteria are prolific replicators and manufacture useful chemicals and bio-active molecules. With a new technique called MAGE (Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering), developed by George Church at Harvard, bacteria are being engineered to perform these functions faster and more efficiently.

Harvard Gazette

Members of the Harvard community are invited to celebrate the opening of The Laboratory at Harvard (aka “The Lab”), a new platform for student idea experimentation in the arts and sciences.

United Press International
Harvard University researchers have produced a new technology that will cause a fundamental shift in how biologists grow and study cells.

Medical News Today
An insight from the labs of Harvard chemist George Whitesides and cell biologist Don Ingber is likely to make a fundamental shift in how biologists grow and study cells - and it's as cheap and simple as reaching for a paper towel.

Inside Science News Service
L. Mahadevan and colleagues tackle wrinkles in rugs – including how they form, how they move and what happens when they interact.

Harvard Crimson
A new Harvard study may open the possibility of using human stem cells to regenerate diseased or damaged hearts.

Harvard Gazette
Harvard, Chinese researchers discover 30 new species during remote mountain explorations

Boston Globe
Harvard researchers have created a strip of pulsing heart muscle from mouse embryonic stem cells, a step toward the eventual goal of growing replacement parts for hearts damaged by cardiovascular disease.

Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science
Pamela Silver, professor of systems biology at Harvard University, asserted that bioengineering will play a key role in the future of engineering in a Jones Seminar lecture on October 2.

SEED
With a few strands of nucleic acids and some ingenious programming, DNA Origami is remaking nanotechnology, from drug delivery to chip design.  

Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics' list of "10 Most Brilliant Innovators" for 2009 includes George Whitesides for his Lab on a Chip diagnostic technique and Hugo Van Vuuren of David Edwards' lab for his bacteria-powered battery.

Computer World
Harvard University researchers recently got a $10 million grant to create a colony of flying robotic bees, or RoboBees to among other things, spur innovation in ultra-low-power computing and electronic “smart” sensors; and refine coordination algorithms to manage multiple, independent machines. 

Harvard Crimson
In noting the Radcliffe Institute's tenth anniversary, one Radcliffe Fellow, Joanna Aizenberg, said that the Institute provides an opportunity to “establish connections between the arts and sciences, so science may not be seen as so boring.”

Boston Globe Magazine
The idea sounds like science fiction. But it might someday come true. A group of Boston scientists is pushing the bounds of regenerative medicine.

Men's Journal
At Harvard, one of DARPA’s partner teams is studying neurons battered by microstressors. Kit Parker, who heads the project, has a distinctive investment in the work, having served a tour in northern Afghanistan as an army reserve captain in ’02.