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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
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... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
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
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
what my priorities are. I actually didn't know what that mission-driven work would be at the time. But I came across a company whose mission it was to democratize access to genetic testing for hereditary cancers. It was that power of... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors treating the woman. Watson had already ingested millions of oncology papers and volumes of leukemia data from research institutes around the world. Now, the doctors in Tokyo fed Watson the woman’s genetic information, hoping it... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
a genetic enzyme deficiency that leads to rapid muscle deterioration and death from respiratory failure, usually before age five. Although fewer than one thousand children worldwide suffer from any form of Pompe's disease, the Crowleys'... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
focus on large-scale beverage technology, sections cover starter cultures, regulatory challenges, genetic engineering, quality, and safety. From practical issues of developing probiotic beverages, to the marketing of these drinks to the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
variety of known causes, but this is the first time a genetically driven form of hearing loss has received rare disease recognition. We think the designation will broaden medical research in this field and ultimately lead to a range of... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
of the world's population but only 0.5% of transplants are performed there. Giwa and his colleagues at the Global Solutions Program investigated ideas for creating more organs: Could technology be developed to 3D-print organs? Could pig organs be View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
the single-celled organisms to bulk up on fat like bears preparing for winter. Alas, just like bears, the microscopic butterballs eventually go into hibernation. And once that happens, they stop growing, negating the gains made in oil production. SGI solved that... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
among many other things. For Vescovo, it’s about the possibilities. The deeps could hold the answers to pressing questions on dry land: “We’re collecting biological samples and genetically sequencing them. We may find things that have... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
and many other emerging markets, and know the nature of mobile money — a network business in the nexus of two highly regulated industries, banking and telecoms — this is understandable." With a father who had abandoned corporate accounting to open a restaurant, Maddy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
momentum, Vasella recently oversaw the opening of a new research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that will focus on genetics and molecular biology. The Kendall Square location was specifically chosen, Vasella explains, to draw on the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
up a genetics lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and earned a master's degree in social psychology from Boston University. "I came to HBS to get a degree that would be broad enough to apply to any area within the administration of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
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 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
reflection, he adds genetic engineering, specialty retail outlets, catalogue companies, restaurants, and superstores. But when Sahlman's attention turns to the present day, his answer is immediate and unqualified: the Internet. "In many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
and cord-blood stem cells for the treatment of some cancers, genetic disorders, and certain immune deficiencies. (Cord blood contains stem cells; individuals can bank their own until they, or close blood relatives, tap it for their own... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons