In life science, Harvard publishes more but MIT profits
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When it comes to hatching new biotechnology ideas, who's number one? It's Harvard. No wait, it's MIT.
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PHILADELPHIA _ When the subject is stem cell research, the term embryo is not only ethically charged, but increasingly hard to define.  Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have stretched the definition even further.
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In April of 2004, two Harvard undergrads walked into the Charles Hotel for a meeting with a venture capitalist. What happened next either highlights Boston's deficiencies as a greenhouse for a new generation of Web start-ups, or illustrates the incredible magnetism of Silicon Valley - or a bit of both.
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Biotech funds differ in their make-up, performance, and promise.
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Two biotech giants are searching for office space in Cambridge in moves that may foreshadow the establishment of larger research facilities.
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WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 27  /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers in MIT's Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi) are using Interactive Supercomputing Inc.'s (ISC) Star-P(TM) software to create new biological models that may someday yield new drug discoveries.
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Harvard University's endowment paid its two top investment managers about $25 million each last year, less than the pair earned a year ago, but still enough to irritate critics who consider the compensation excessive.
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Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish â on the Web, at least â free.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported yesterday that by using cells harvested from rats, they have grown dime-size swatches of
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Hacib Aoun achieved the dream of having an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine, but not in the manner he expected.
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The biotech mines extra value from its compound library.
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Pre-clinical trial results are mixed, but mark a major step forward for developing human treatments.
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Scientists in Massachusetts said yesterday that they had created several colonies of human embryonic stem cells without harming the embryos from which they were derived, the latest in a series of advances that could speed development of stem-cell-based treatments for a variety of diseases.
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Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,  - Harvard University students:  overachieving, bookish bores or repressed party animals? A  little of both, it seems.
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It goes against the current scientific conventional wisdom. But a suprising new study suggests that therapeutic cloning may be more successful using the most mature adult cells
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A new strategy aiming to attract global investment in the field of life sciences is launched.