August 25, 2005

Youthful transformation Harvard Stem Cell Institute biologist Chad Cowan, having created a new type of hybrid adult-cum-embryo cell, believes it will be possible to eventually create embryonic stem cells to study how genetic diseases develop without creating or destroying human embryos. (Staff photo Justin Ide/Harvard News Office) Full story

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Adult cells transformed into stem cells
Genetic clock rewound

Urine test tracks deadly birthmarks
Also used to detect cancers

Gates Foundation awards two Harvard investigators $26 million
Grants aim to advance global health

Harvard, MGH researchers track egg cell production to marrow
Researchers restore egg production in sterile mice

A new look at anemia
A cure in fish could work in humans

Getting to fear you
Race drives persistence of fear

Fryer brings mathematical economics to stubborn racial issues
'It's a way of taking politics, emotion, and anecdotes out of the analysis'

Undergraduates spend summer creating living machines
Biological wire, sketchpad emerging from lab

A taste of doctor's life
Crimson Summer Academey students see gall bladder surgery as it happens

Robot makes rounds at Children's Hospital
'Gizmo' popular with nurses and patients