Radiation therapy and chemotherapy aimed at killing cancer cells may have the undesirable effect of helping to create cancer stem cells, which are thought to be particularly adept at generating new tumors and are especially resistant to treatment, researchers say. Chiang Li, HMS lecturer on medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is the lead author of the study.
Researchers can now order a “plug-and-play” human genome interpretation system from Knome, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based genome analysis company co-founded by George Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at HMS.
Thanks to the recent findings of a team of Harvard researchers, scientists can now view more than four microspecies at once using fluorescent microscopy—a development which will give scientists a fuller understanding of the samples they are examining. Peng Yin, HMS assistant professor of systems biology; William Shih, HMS associate professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; and George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at HMS, led the team.
Vanessa Kerry, HMS instructor in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, has created a partnership with the Peace Corps to send doctors and nurses abroad. In return a non-profit pays off part of school loans.
As sugar-packed sodas gain a deservedly bad reputation for packing pounds on kids, sports drinks are emerging as a “healthier” alternative – but for most kids they’re just empty calories in disguise, a new study says. Yet they often turn up in school vending machines –and use is rising especially in boys. Alison Field, HMS associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, led the study.
