Zebrafish help solve an evolutionary puzzle, and may help make blood stem cell transplants safer

This still image, from an HHMI video about the work of the Zon laboratory,...

Current and former HIP interns launch research projects on the same rocket

by Hannah L. Robbins

Mosquitos buzzed in the warm, night air at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Half past midnight on July 18, and still the spectators could not detect activity on the launch pad. In the dark, among fellow scientists and students, Harvard Stem Cell Institute Internship Program (HIP) intern Michael Liu waited.

Roughly two miles away, the SpaceX Falcon9 rocket stood on Space Launch Complex 40 ready to launch the Dragon spacecraft. Among two...

This story was originally posted by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

New findings could help lead to drug treatment to prevent dangerous genetic heart disease

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Cross-Harvard collaboration explores new possibilities for personalized medicine

Harvard scientists have merged stem cell and ‘organ-on-a-chip’ technologies to grow, for the first time, functioning human heart tissue carrying an inherited cardiovascular disease. The research appears to be a big step forward for personalized medicine, as it is working proof that a chunk of tissue containing a patient’s specific genetic...