March 24, 2005

Breathing lessons Donald Ingber, Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at the Medical School, checks the work of graduate student Julia Sero as they study the process of lung growth. Ingber has discovered how to speed up lung development, a process that is driven by the mechanical stretching of individual cells. (Staff photo Peter DiCampo/Harvard News Office) Full story

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Light detected from alien planets
Historic moment for astronomy

Mystery of how lungs grow is solved
Cells 'feel' the pressure to grow

Trichopoulos to receive $5.8 million 'Innovator Award' grant
HSPH professor to study breast cancer

Women in science and engineering
- Task Forces and Office of Work/Life reach out
- Radcliffe conference presents a variety of views

Dazzling array of scientists honor Coleman
Nobelists, Fields medalists, and an Oscar winner converge

Harvard experts help sort out U.S. energy future
KSG experts talk energy with senators

Zoning the Atlantic
Massachusetts environmental secretary outlines pending legislation

Research in brief
Genetic defects give immune system green light to attack the pancreas

New drug therapy cuts risk of second heart attack