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...study’s authors. “The idea with a cancer vaccine is to wake up the immune system and let it know there’s a tumor in the body and it should try to destroy it,” Huebsch said. Current therapies involve reprogramming immune cells in a petri dish to recognize the patient’s particular tumor, said Omar A. Ali, one of the authors. But these cells have a low survival rate, requiring physicians to use large numbers of them to effectively treat tumors, said the School of Engineering and Applied...
...preserve order after peace settlements are reached. “Peackeeping uncovers some of the most important international problems of our time,” said moderator Jacqueline Bhabha, the director of the University’s Committee on Human Rights Studies. Malcorra called for a reevaluation of the current U.N. intervention model because of new challenges. “More and more so, the U.N. has become a target in itself,” she said. Harland and Gaouette presented mixed viewpoints on the efficacy of the international organization, especially the Security Council. “Clarity...
...same gas that makes balloons fly and voices rise is also an important tool for Harvard researchers conducting specialized scientific research—a tool that will be in shorter supply thanks to cutbacks faced by University scientists in the current financial climate...
...letter sent to the SEAS community in December, Spaepen outlined the School’s plans for dealing with the economic downturn, including an immediate cut of $1 million of unrestricted expenses for the current academic year...
...been plummeting prices. According to a price index compiled by research firm iSuppli, DRAM prices have plunged 48% in the past six months. That is good news for consumers - cheaper DRAMs mean electronics makers can pack more memory into their gadgets - but it is a disaster for manufacturers. At current price levels, chipmakers have a hard time making money. Kim Nam Hyung, chief memory chip analyst at iSuppli in El Segundo, Calif., estimates that the price of 1-gigabit DRAMs, for example, is at about half the manufacturers' break-even cost. "The situation is getting worse and worse," Kim says...