Pity the female fruit fly. Being a looker is simply not enough. To get a date, much less a proposal, you have to act like a girl, even smell like one. Otherwise, you might just have a fight on your hand
Howard Green, a founding father of regenerative medicine and the George Higginson professor of cell biology at HMS, will receive the 2010 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize on Sept. 27. Colleagues will honor Green at an afternoon symposium featuring talks by prominent stem cell researchers.
Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, HMS and Children’s Hospital Boston have created a device on a microchip that mimics a living, breathing human lung. About the size of a rubber eraser, it makes use of human lung and blood vessel cells
Lloyd M. Aiello, an HMS clinical professor of ophthalmology at Joslin Diabetes Center’s Beetham Eye Institute, will receive the 2008/2009 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize on Sept. 29. As part of the day’s celebration, Aiello will give a talk at a symposium beginning at 2 pm at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. As an Alpert Prize recipient, Aiello joins an elite group of physician-scientists and researchers, seven of whom have also won the Nobel Prize
In certain respects, cells are less like machines and more like people. True, they have lots of components, but they also have lots of personality. For example, when specific groups of people are studied in aggregate (conservatives, liberals, atheists, evangelicals), they appear to be fairly uniform and predictable. But when looked at one person at a time, individuals often break the preconceptions
