Selected Publications
- Designer Vaccines Tailor Immune Response (April 2010) New work from HMS researchers shows that the old-fashioned skin-scratching smallpox vaccine triggers a different kind of immune response than more modern injected vaccines.
- New Direction in Academic Science Aims to Bridge Valley of Death (February 2010) The scientist's job used to end with publication of a discovery in a journal. Now, those hoping their work will improve human health must carry their ideas across the rickety bridge to commercialization. Unfortunately, most ideas fall through the slats into the Valley of Death.
- DNA Folding: A Neatnik's Dream (November 2009) Harvard Medical School Researchers untangle the mystery of how chromosomes pack themselves into a tiny cellular nucleus yet still remain accessible.
- Disorderly Conduct (June 5, 2009) New work from Harvard School of Public Health researchers suggests that cells in an advancing sheet team up in what looks like a global tug-of-war to drag the entire sheet forward.
- Energy Equations Propose Patterns of Weight Gain and Loss (January 9, 2009) Controlling body weight is a simple matter of balancing how much you eat against how much you burn, right? For some, maybe, but HMS researchers have devised a mathematical model of energy balance and body weight that suggests a more complicated equation.
- Let there be machines (February 23, 2010) A new kind of intelligent design movement may be upon us -- one that has its origins at the intersections of biological engineering and the life sciences.
- MIT creates gecko-inspired bandage (February 18, 2008) MIT researchers have created a waterproof adhesive bandage inspired by gecko-lizards that may soon join sutures and staples as a basic operating room tool for patching up surgical wounds or internal injuries.
- Inclusiveness, optimism among strengths of HST's Gray (February 13, 2008) Martha Gray, director of the Harvard-MIT Department of Health Sciences and Technology, displays an optimism that explains why, on an exceptionally snowy night in March, dozens of people flocked to her home to read poetry and to enjoy chance meetings.
- Going back to lard for old-time pies (July 19, 2006) Lard makes better piecrusts and can be good for you, but only if you use the real thing.
- Warriors for Good (November, 2005) An interview with Robert Kaplan about his book, Imperial Grunts.
- The World In Which We Live (October, 2005) An interview with William Langewiesche about his series of Atlantic articles about A. Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb.
- Defending Darwin (August 10, 2005) Perspectives from Atlantic Monthly articles from 1860 to the present on the conflict between evolution theory and religious fundamentalism.