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Focal Point: Harvard Professor Avi Loeb wants more scientists to think like children

June 28, 2019

This is part of a series called Focal Point, in which we ask a range of Harvard faculty members to answer the same question.

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Abraham “Avi” Loeb

Question: What is one thing wrong with the world that you would change, and why?

The one thing I would change about the world is to transform my colleagues in academia to kids all over again, so they...

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Better Bankruptcy Laws Could Make Recessions Less Painful

June 28, 2019

Barron's | New research from Adrien Auclert of Stanford University, Will Dobbie of Harvard University, and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham of Yale University suggests that [a 2005 law discouraging Americans from filing for bankruptcy] worsened the downturn [in the Great Recession]  and hampered the recovery. Will Dobbie PhD 2013 is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

2019 Trainee Graduation

June 28, 2019

2019 Residents

Thirty-two Harvard Ophthalmology/Mass. Eye and Ear clinical trainees graduated on Thursday, June 20th. The ceremony celebrated eight Harvard Ophthalmology residents, the AY 2018–2019 Chief Resident and one optometry resident, as well as 22 clinical fellows from Mass. Eye and Ear, Joslin Diabetes Center and Boston Children’s Hospital.... Read more about 2019 Trainee Graduation

Vernacular Huizhou Architecture

June 28, 2019

Nan Wang, Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University, School of Architecture
Harvard CAMLab Visiting Scholar

In his lecture, Wang discussed the traditional villages of Hongcun and Xidi, two UNESCO World Heritage sites in the eastern province of Anhui, as remarkable examples of intentional design, carefully preserved throughout the centuries as the rest of China has transformed. The natural environment, artificial waterways, street plans...

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New ATAC-seq method from Harvard accelerates single-cell research

New ATAC-seq method from Harvard accelerates single-cell research

June 27, 2019

Scientists at Harvard University have developed a way to vastly accelerate single-cell sequencing, an advance that promises to give a major lift to biomedical genomics research.

The new approach combines microfluidics and novel software to accelerate single-cell ATAC-seq, which identifies parts of the genome that are open and accessible to regulatory proteins. Detailed in a June 24 article in Nature Biotechnology, the innovation was the product of a collaboration between Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative...

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