Academia

What do you wish someone would’ve told you at the beginning of your career? Most people reflect on their career development and think, ‘If only I knew then what I know now, I’d be farther along.’
Faculty, programs will expand in neuroengineering, synthetic biology, physical biology
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge published research in the journal Nature Communications that suggests spontaneous DNA mutations may cause the majority of dementias.
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are leading the call to remove the papers from the lab of Dr. Piero Anversa, a pioneer in the field of cardiac research.
Antiepileptic drug use is associated with an increased risk of stroke among persons with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins, the University of California, San Diego, and the National Institute of Mental Health grew retinas in petri dishes, and discovered fundamental factors involved in the development of vision and color vision.
UH Biologist Discovers Protein Partnership That Protects Blood Vessels
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
In a monumental new breakthrough, scientists in Japan have created an immature human egg using stem cells that were created from blood cells. While immature human eggs have been successfully created in the lab before, this marks the first time that researchers have been able to do it using human blood.
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