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Scary Stories from the Writing Desk

Of the scary stories told by graduate students as they huddle around a lukewarm coffee pot, none is more terrifying than the tale of the looming deadline. 

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Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Bert L. Smokler and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, 55.5.A.
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From Bach to Breakthroughs

A ground breaking gene-insertion technology developed by the musically-inclined Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD student Isaac Witte and colleagues may bring us closer to treating diseases like cystic fibrosis at their genetic root. 

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evoCAST schematic; evoCAST is a system that combines CRISPR components (blue) and transposase components (yellow) to install entire genes into the human genome (orange).
evoCAST is a system that combines CRISPR components (blue) and transposase components (yellow) to install entire genes into the human genome (orange).
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George Lampe
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Study: CTE Caused by More Than Head Trauma

The neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is not only caused by repeated head impact but also linked to DNA damage similar to that seen in Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study co-led by Harvard Griffin GSAS alumna Chanthia Ma and PhD student Guanlan Dong.

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The Good and the Bad of Meritocracy

Harvard College Dean David Deming, PhD '10, and Harvard professors Randall Kennedy and Michael Sandel discuss the causes of the populist backlash against higher education—and how to respond to it.

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Michael Sandel, Randall Kennedy, and David Deming
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US Stillbirths Higher than Previously Reported

Study led by PhD student Haley Sullivan also finds that, while most stillbirths had at least one identified clinical risk factor, a substantial share had none, particularly those occurring at 40+ weeks of gestation.

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