The SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant's "milder" outcomes are likely due to more population immunity rather than the virus' properties, according to a paper by William Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. ...
Feb 3, 2022
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Autism spectrum disorder has been associated with hundreds of different genes, but how these distinct genetic mutations converge on a similar pathology in patients has remained a mystery. Now, researchers at Harvard University ...
Feb 2, 2022
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital are hot on the trail of elderly "super-agers"—whose sharp memories avoid typical age-related declines—in an attempt to study whether there are interventions ...
Jan 24, 2022
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A new study by the Harvard GenderSci Lab in Social Science and Medicine has found large variations in the magnitude and direction of sex differences in COVID-19 outcomes across localities and over time during the pandemic ...
Jan 18, 2022
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Based on the quick rise and precipitous drop of Omicron in South Africa, Harvard experts are cautiously hopeful about a possible decline of the surging COVID variant in the very near future, even as they warn of dramatic ...
Jan 7, 2022
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Many parents in past decades believed that intelligence and many other abilities were fixed traits. A child was born smart or not, and little could be done to change that. More recent research has upended that notion, and ...
Jan 7, 2022
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We asked David Silbersweig—Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, co-director of the Center for the Neurosciences at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and co-author of a 2018 paper on the neurobiological ...
Dec 15, 2021
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As the latest coronavirus variant upends expectations about the pandemic's coming months, drug manufacturers are working to expand treatment options to fight those stricken with severe disease. Even as new pills from Pfizer ...
Dec 14, 2021
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Harvard experts warn of a "surge upon a surge" in COVID-19 infections in the coming weeks, as cases involving the Omicron variant pile onto the nationwide illness and death the Delta strain has left in its wake in recent ...
Dec 10, 2021
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