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Health Care

Leading the Fight Against Childhood Cancer


By Jordan Weinstein
There's been a hopeful development in treatment for soft-tissue sarcoma. A doctor talks about how small foundations play a crucial role in cancer research.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: (Re)generating Excitement


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
A couple of Cambridge companies are gaining ground with their regenerative medicine technology, which uses living cells and other natural materials to promote healing.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Remembering Norman Priebatsch


By Xconomy.com
The life sciences entrepreneur is missing and presumed dead after a hiking accident in New Hampshire.
Health Care

At MGH, Building from the Skeleton of a Heart


WGBH NEWS FOCUS: HEALTH CARE ON TRIAL
By Toni Waterman
Scientists at Mass. General Hospital are working on a technique to strip diseased hearts of their cells and then rebuild them into healthy organs.
Biology & Chemistry

Connectome: How the Brain's Writing Makes Us Who We Are


MIT's Sebastian Seung is leading research to map the brain's connections, neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse. (Photo by KK+/Flickr)
Biology & Chemistry

Run! It's Good For Your Health


NOVA: Becoming Human
Daniel Lieberman, professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, explains how closely connected our health is to our level of activity.
NOVA

Unintelligent Design


NOVA: Garden of Eden
Some mammals are examples of how the process of evolution isn't necessarily intelligent.



Health Care

Xconomy Report: More Hope for Hep C


By Xconomy.com
The battle for hepatitis C drug market dominance rages on locally, with Vertex honing its drug Telaprevir and Enanta teaming with Novartis to create a new treatment.
Biology & Chemistry

Super Bowl Sensors: The Findings Are In


WGBH NEWS: THE BIOSENSORS GO ON
By Cristina Quinn
Some unexpected data came out of WGBH News' Super Bowl biosensor experiment that could advance a researcher's work on addiction.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Finding The Next Facebook


By Xconomy.com
While most of the tech world is analyzing Facebook’s impending IPO, a new effort at Harvard University is trying to find the next Facebook — and keep it in Cambridge.
Biology & Chemistry

Controversy Continues To Rage Over BU Biolab


GREATER BOSTON: TOUR THE BIOLAB
By Will Roseliep
A mid-February public hearing has been pushed back, but the public isn't keeping quiet on concerns over a center that could be studying deadly bioagents.
World Health

Diagnosing Disease On A 'Postage Stamp'


By Cristina Quinn
Paper is everywhere — in your coffeemaker, on your desk, in the recycling bin. But what if it could save lives? One Cambridge company thinks a slip of paper holds the answer to diagnosing illness cheaply, anywhere.
Biology & Chemistry

Iris Scans And Spacesuits: Inside The BU Biolab


By Toni Waterman
Mayor Menino and directors of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories show off the safety precautions built in to protect workers and neighbors from life-threatening pathogens.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Fight Fat With Fat


By Xconomy.com
A new Boston firm has raised $34 million to develop drugs that tap into a new understanding of brown fat, a tissue that could help people burn off the more-familiar white fat.
Health

For Health, A Dose Of Worms


By Gary Mott
Believe it or not, but the next big advance in treating autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Crohn’s may be... worms. 
The Secret Life Of Scientists And Engineers

Andre Fenton: Neurobiologist


WATCH
Andre Fenton's secret is meditation. He talks about science of memory and the benefits of meditation.
The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers

Caryn Babaian: Biology Teacher


WATCH
Just like her hero, Leonardo da Vinci, Caryn Babaian loves to combine biology with art. But she isn't the only one who draws in her classroom at Bucks County Community College. She also has her students draw as a way of helping them learn about biology.
Environment

Monitoring The Coastlines On Climatide


READ CLIMATIDE

Climatide, a new blog from WGBH, WCAI and NPR's Argo Network, chronicles how global warming is changing life on Cape Cod, day by day.

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