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• Study: Polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming Diciembre 16, 2009
  A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Harvard and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, employs a novel statistical approach that reveals the planet's polar ice sheets are vulnerable to large-scale melting even under moderate global warming sce […]
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• Obesity trends will snuff out health gains from decline in smoking Diciembre 2, 2009
  If obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by Harvard and University of Michigan researchers published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.read more
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• First cancer vaccine to eliminate tumors in mice Noviembre 25, 2009
  A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, a team of Harvard bioengineers and biologists report today in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The new approach uses plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted under the skin […]
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• Harvard Medical School grad heads for International Space Station Noviembre 16, 2009
  In an era when elementary schoolchildren can create exciting new worlds and explore them with the click of a computer mouse, will we again see bold explorers like Lewis and Clark or the Mercury Seven astronauts? Will we follow modern Jasons and their Argonauts through space in an age in which the nation’s deficit is soaring and equally alluring worlds in our […]
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• Researchers ‘NOTCH’ a victory in war on cancer Noviembre 10, 2009
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• Speeding new medicines and technologies to the developing world Noviembre 9, 2009
  A consortium of Harvard and five other leading research universities and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) have endorsed a far-reaching “Statement of Principles and Strategies for the Equitable Dissemination of Medical Technologies” in the developing world.read more
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• Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms Noviembre 5, 2009
  Harvard physicists have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways. The work, published this week in the journal Nature, represents the first time scientists have detected single atoms in a crystalline structure made solely of l […]
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• Materials scientists find better model for glass creation Noviembre 4, 2009
  Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass.Glasses form through the process of vitrification, in which a glass-forming liquid cools and slowly becomes a solid whose molecules, though they’ve stopped moving, are not permanently loc […]
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• Orphan army ants join nearby colonies Noviembre 4, 2009
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• Face it: Octubre 30, 2009
  Gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women, according to the results of a new study by a Harvard researcher.The findings suggest that regardless of sexual orientation, men’s brains are wired for attraction to sexually dimorphic faces — those with facial features that are most synonymous […]
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