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- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni Take Cold Calls in New York City
focused on 23andMe, whose sale of genetic testing kits directly to consumers was challenged by the Food & Drug Administration. Quelch, who coauthored the case, is also on the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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You Are What You Eat
Writing in the magazine Pig Progress (September 23, 2010), Austria-based John Hodges (AMP 52, 1967),an expert on genetics and ethics in agriculture, food, and the environment, warned that the current system of agribusiness is untenable....
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- 06 Sep 2016
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Connecting Past and Present
Family health was the impetus for Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958), founder of one of the world’s largest genealogy resources. “My family carries the beta thalassemia genetic trait,” a blood disorder. When my nephew was diagnosed, and we then...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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As the Future Catches You
genetics revolution is occurring 50 percent faster than the computer revolution; private companies, from IBM to DuPont to L'Oreal, will have the ability to rewrite the source code of life; and nanotechnology will soon produce "biorobots"...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
qualities, achieved through the controversial technology of genetic modification. Genetically modified foods, also known as GMOs, are a confusing topic for consumers. In the United States, 95 percent of the...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map
Health (NIH) undertook the Human Genome Project, an effort to map the extraordinarily intricate chemical composition of the human genome. Scientists have long believed that understanding the vast genetic code underlying all human life...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Aug 2001
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Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
companies and countries worldwide and, before retiring in 1997, had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants. Most recently, Goldberg has focused on the impact that advances in View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
tap the best minds in genetic research. Fresh out of HBS, Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) joined a nonprofit economic-development organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Although their missions are different, these...
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- 01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
STUDENTS "Enjoy whatever you are doing or move on." CURRENT READING Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements, by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers As the overseer of Singapore's economic direction for many years, Philip Yeo...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
proponent of uncomfortable topics such as human cloning, genetic screening, and antiaging medicines. Yet he is more passionate about the discussion these issues generate than any final outcome. "We are in the awkward early stages of...
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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 View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
problem: Your genetic proclivities are not biasing you toward happiness.” “Your dreams are liars. Here’s the problem: Your genetic proclivities are not biasing you toward happiness.” The big problem that...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
into the hectic new year, news broke of an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. On January 11, 2020, the Chinese government posted the genetic sequence of what it had identified as a novel coronavirus. Moderna had its test,...
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- 26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past
networking cards; Modular Visions Systems; and Gage Electronics, the first manufacturer of computer-based instrumentation. In 1991, the need to find and warn family members of their genetic heritage prompted Diamond to concentrate on that...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2001
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Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
sciences and bioengineering. "In the next generation, we will know the genetic and molecular mechanisms of disease," Yeo declares. "Biomedical science will control and eradicate cancer and AIDS, and individualized medicine will be the...
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- 04 May 2017
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Going the Distance
turned to his first love—the ocean—for his next adventures, inspired in no small part by his daughter Lily, who was born in 2009 with a rare genetic disorder that has left her severely disabled. “My original idea of a typical retirement...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution
plant’s seeds contains its entire genetic code. The plant develops according to that code, with leaves of a certain shape and flowers of specific colors. To his rapt audience, Enriquez declares, “You’re lucky to be in Cambridge. You’ve...
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- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells that help treat life-threatening diseases like leukemia and certain View Details
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
fact that we knew the genetic sequence of it within a few weeks, the fact that there are vaccine candidates being tried in humans, that perhaps we’ll see a drug that is effective against it—the power of biomedical research in the year...
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- 07 Oct 2014
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Network Effect
Harvard geneticist focused on finding genetic links to the disease. He had already discovered three of the four then-known genes associated with Alzheimer’s. “Part of my skill set is I can recognize world-class talent when I see it,” says...
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Linda Kush