Selected Publications
Feature Articles
- The Phantom Gourmet (Harvard Medicine, Spring 2010) Taste comes unbidden to some people with mental disorders.
- A Pinch of Salt (Harvard Medicine, Spring 2010) The secret to this magical ingredient remains elusive to scientists.
- Taste the Burn (Harvard Medicine, Spring 2010) Traditional flavors in Thai food reveal an ancient yet highly sophisticated culinary alchemy.
- New Direction in Academic Science Aims to Bridge Valley of Death (Harvard Focus, February 2010) Broadening translational investigation holds promise for patients.
- DNA Folding: A Neatnik's Dream (Harvard Focus, November 2009) Untangling the mystery of how chromosomes pack themselves into a tiny cellular nucleus yet still remain accessible.
- Going back to lard for old-time pies (Boston Globe, July 19, 2006) Lard makes better piecrusts and can be good for you, but only if you use the real thing.
- Warriors for Good (The Atlantic Online, November, 2005) An interview with Robert Kaplan about his book, Imperial Grunts.
- The World In Which We Live (The Atlantic Online, 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 (The Atlantic Online, August 10, 2005) Perspectives from Atlantic Monthly articles from 1860 to the present on the conflict between evolution theory and religious fundamentalism.
News Releases
- Living Breathing Lung on a Chip (HMS, June 2010) A potential drug testing alternative.
- Researchers create self-assembling nanodevices that move and change shape on demand (HMS, June 2010) Tensegrity, long the focus of artists and architects, has bioengineering applications.
- Scientists Discover How Ocean Bacterium Turns Carbon into Fuel (HMS, March 2010) Findings may help improve the efficiency of designer bacteria engineered to produce carbon-neutral fuels such as biodiesel and hydrogen. Let there be machines (MIT, 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 (MIT, 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.
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