Over the past several months, the federal government has terminated roughly 2,100 National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants worth around $9.5 billion. One of the most detailed accounts of those grant terminations has been produced by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Scott Delaney. Delaney, a research scientist in the Department of Environmental…
A Palestinian father who had lost nine of his 10 children in an Israeli airstrike has died from wounds sustained in the same attack, local health officials have said. Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, a doctor at Nasser hospital, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis…
Women who ate diets rich in high-quality carbohydrates—including fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes—were more likely to stay healthy as they aged than those who did not, according to a recent study led by researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
“When I applied to PhD programs, the BPH program fit my research interests. I’m surrounded by people who are focused on public health for everyone, and that motivation ends up informing the basic biology research that I do.” Reflecting on her academic journey that eventually brought her to The Harvard Chan School’s Biological Sciences…
What exactly is AI Scientist—just a fancy kind of neural net? It’s not a single neural network, but rather an ensemble of computer programs that can help scientists make new discoveries. My group has already developed algorithms that can help with individual tasks, such as weather forecasting, identifying the drivers of global temperature rise, or…
Two people have died and hundreds have been arrested across France amid raucous celebrations after Paris Saint-Germain’s Champion’s League final victory. Cars were torched as flares and fireworks were set off while supporters clashed with police in the French capital on Saturday night following the match in Munich. Four hundred and 91 people were arrested…
Home Congrats to new Grad Lab PhD Candidates! May 29, 2025 Jump to Section Share Post LinkedIn Facebook WhatsApp Email Copy link Huge congratulations to PhD students Maddy Kline, Bailey Bowcutt, and Eric Neubauer Vickers on passing their qualifying exams this spring! We’re very proud of our now-official PhD candidates and excited to see where…
In May, Aditya Bandekar published the fantastic article Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Current Biology. It describes the spatiotemporal aspects of gonococcal cell proliferation – highlighting the importance of cell morphology in determining the fidelity of chromosome segregation and cell division. Grad Lab members Samantha Palace, Yi Wang, and Yonatan Grad…
Russian investigators said on Sunday they believed “explosions” had caused two bridges in the border regions of Kursk and Bryansk to collapse overnight, derailing trains, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens. In Bryansk, which borders Ukraine, a road bridge collapsed on to a railway line late on Saturday, derailing a passenger train heading…
As Sudan’s Darfur region has been overrun by militias, women are facing the constant threat of sexual violence, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reported. The medical charity said in the South Darfur region alone its workers treated 659 sexual violence survivors between January and March this year, more than two-thirds of whom had been raped….
