Tag: Steven E. Hyman

  • Science & Tech

    Symposium: ‘Will brain imaging be lie detector test of the future?’

    For almost a century, one of the staples of crime stories has been the wires, cuffs, and jiggling recording needle of the polygraph machine. In its time, the “lie detector” was hailed as a way to measure the telltale physiological signs of deception, including hard breathing, high blood pressure, and excess perspiration. But in truth,…

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  • Health

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers granted approval

    After more than two years of intensive ethical and scientific review, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Harvard and Children’s Hospital Boston have been cleared to begin experiments using Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) to create disease-specific stem cell lines in an effort to develop treatments for a wide range of now-incurable conditions afflicting…

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  • Campus & Community

    Ethics of stem cell research front and center

    A top Bush bioethics adviser kicked off a new series of discussions about the ethics of stem cell and other scientific research on Thursday (Oct. 20), tangling with Harvard faculty members over the meaning of life and of family, and over the limits that society ought to impose on itself. The discussion, at times brutally…

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  • Campus & Community

    Task Forces on Women release findings

    Harvard’s Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and Engineering, appointed three months ago to address concerns of women faculty and women in science throughout the University, Monday (May 16) released reports calling for large-scale changes in the way the University recruits faculty and supports women and underrepresented minorities pursuing academic careers.…

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard examining geospatial analysis technology programs

    n Moshi, Tanzania, hard-hit by AIDS, researchers are using detailed aerial photographs and global positioning system receivers to locate study subjects in a maze of houses without addresses and streets without names. The project, a health program for children, families, and communities within Moshi by Harvard Medical School’s Children’s Health and Social Ecology (CHASE) program,…

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