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- 01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun
health benefits—it helps the body store less fat, helps build the immune system, and reduces stress.” Hoskins cofounded the company in 2014, launching a Kickstarter campaign in November 2015 that netted Ario more than $200,000 in 30 days....
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
and cord-blood stem cells for the treatment of some cancers, genetic disorders, and certain immune deficiencies. (Cord blood contains stem cells; individuals can bank their own until they, or close blood relatives, tap it for their own...
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Garry Emmons
- 24 Apr 2014
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Offering a breath of life for critically ill patients
Technology, which manufactures the synthetic scaffolds and bioreactors used to seed the patient’s own bone marrow cells on the scaffold prior to transplant. The cells quickly grow a new trachea, which, because it is made from the patient’s own cells, is not rejected by...
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- 13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked
detection, right? Ba-doop, doop! The alarm goes off, the white blood cells get it, but the red blood cells do the repair. So, the human immune system is a perfect example. It doesn’t know where the threat’s going to come from; it doesn’t...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Finding Their Way
The best-laid plans — even those designed and implemented by the remarkably talented alumni of HBS — are seldom immune to life's twists and turns. This is perhaps the overriding lesson that each member of the Class of 1976 has learned...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for...
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 20 Apr 2020
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To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
search for treatments, and the desperate lack of critical data. “Right now we’re plagued by a paucity of proper data,” says Seftel. “We need expanded diagnostics to determine who has been infected and how their immune system has...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
The U.S. health-care industry isn’t immune to the forces of disruptive innovation that already have transformed other businesses, from computer manufacturing to retailing, HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen told 250 participants at the...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
introduced HIV and hepatitis C into his system. Today he’s in full health: a liver transplant cured both the hemophilia and the hepatitis, and tests showed he is naturally immune to HIV infection. This past March Massie was named...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Ted Anthony
attitudes and objectives of students and faculty at HBS had been fairly consistent from one year to the next, but the early '70s marked a turning point. The School was not immune to the unprecedented social and political upheaval...
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Ted Anthony
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
together a transportable lab that’s immune to the elements. “Weather conditions, power outages—they don’t matter to us anymore,” Kozachenok says. What does matter is advancing aquaculture, an enterprise that, when carried out poorly, can...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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John R. Davis
tagging and immunizing all calves. In the decade that he has run the ranch, Davis has increased production fourfold. He uses a method of “rotational cell grazing” that takes advantage of cattle's natural ability to harvest the land by...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
explains how and why a financial panic unfolds, with lessons that can be applied to our understanding of present-day financial and monetary systems. The book details the reasons why, despite today’s stronger monetary regime and risk-mitigation tools, our modern...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Just Breathe
cause chronic stress. Chronic stress can contribute to high blood pressure, a weakened immune system, anxiety, depression, diabetes, obesity, gastrointestinal problems, and accelerated aging. There was also a study by a Harvard professor...
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- 27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup
assaulting our immune system by getting vaccinated. Well, that’s forging a stronger body for having that brief setback from the vaccination. If you think about our muscles when we’re exercising, what are doing to our muscles? We’re...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
the body’s immune system can clear them.” The molecule also has potential applications beyond Alzheimer’s, including Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and several rare diseases—all characterized by damaging brain buildups. “It’s a golden...
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- 20 Jan 2015
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Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
Once downloaded on the MedKaz, the documents are erased from HRC’s servers. Prior to a medical appointment, the patient completes a questionnaire stored on the device. The doctor can see a health summary, access past records, and generate printable medication or View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
accusations of price gouging and calls for generic alternatives. The few big companies still investing in vaccines saw their fortunes take an upward turn in the mid-2010s, as countries with growing economies, like China, expanded View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
where we don't speak about business matters—going on a jog together, date night, or work-free vacation. A break is healthy for everyone to recharge, regroup, and reflect." How do you use what you learned at HBS at IMMUNE Pharmaceuticals...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
allowing users to retain relative anonymity. Back to top Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) As the months of the pandemic ticked by, many of us were transfixed by progress updates on vaccine development. Moderna’s mRNA technology, we learned, uses molecules to carry the...
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