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Study finds promising results using acupuncture to treat inflammation

Acupuncture activates inflammation-regulating pathways, tames cytokine storm in mice.

Ekaterina Pesheva • harvard
Aug. 12, 2020 • ~10 min

Tags: science-technology inflammation harvard-medical-school hms qiufu-ma acupuncture

Harvard scientists find vision relates to movement

Harvard neuroscientists look at how movement influences vision and perception.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Aug. 11, 2020 • ~8 min

Tags: science-technology juan-siliezar neuron david-cox department-of-molecular-and-cellular-biology grigori-guitchounts harvard-center-for-brain-science primary-visual-cortex

Resistant cancer cells can be targeted for elimination

Harvard University researchers have identified a unique characteristic of the resistant cancer cells, which could lead to an inhibitor can be repurposed and combined with chemotherapy to improve patient outcomes.

Jessica Lau • harvard
Aug. 7, 2020 • ~5 min

Tags: science-technology chemotherapy david-scadden blood-cancer cell-metabolism resistant-cancer-cells

Emily Balskus wins Waterman Award with $1M in research funding

Emily Balskus has won the Alan T. Waterman Award, the National Science Foundation's most prestigious prize for scientists under 40 in the United States.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
Aug. 5, 2020 • ~6 min

Tags: science-technology chemistry cancer bacteria parkinsons-disease fas emily-balskus chemistry-and-chemical-biology colon-cancer caitlin-mcdermott-murphy microbiome microbes gut l-dopa microbiology therapeutics disease national-science-foundation cholesterol metagenomics award catherine-drennan human-health nsf sethuraman-panchanathan

Arboretum examines climate change’s impact on maple trees

Researchers at Arboretum studying how maple trees are adapting to climate change.

Deborah Blackwell • harvard
Aug. 5, 2020 • ~12 min

Tags: science-technology evolution climate-change environments-sustainability arnold-arboretum research al-kovaleski jake-grossman maples

New England’s trees capturing more carbon, says 25-year study

The rate at which carbon is captured from the atmosphere at Harvard Forest nearly doubled between 1992 and 2015, a 25-year study reveals.

Clarisse Hart • harvard
Aug. 4, 2020 • ~5 min

Tags: science-technology climate-change harvard-forest carbon-storing harvard-forest-long-term-ecological-research-site

Never-before-seen bacterium found at Arnold Arboretum

A new species of bacteria, one that makes its home on the relatively hot and dry surface of a solar panel, was discovered recently at the Arnold Arboretum, offering a lesson that nature’s reach extends even to the artificial.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Aug. 3, 2020 • ~6 min