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Light-driven fine chemical production in yeast biohybrids
Wyss Institute Core Faculty member Neel Joshi explains the concept of yeast biohybrids and how they can be used to harvest energy from light to drive the production of fine chemicals. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
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Saving Beethoven
A CRISPR technique holds promise for preventing inherited hearing loss and other genetic diseases. Learn more... https://hms.harvard.edu/news/saving-beethoven
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Reciting pi to celebrate Pi Day at Harvard
Pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, has fascinated mathematicians and scientists for centuries. The number, which repeats infinitely and never falls into a repeating pattern, is used in formulae throughout the...
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Tour the tomb of Queen Hetepheres
The Digital Giza Project lets scholars virtually visit sites in Egypt and beyond and, even print them in 3-D. This video shows a guided tour of the subterranean tomb of Queen Hetepheres at Giza, including reconstructions of tomb contents...
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Liquid Infused Tympanostomy Tubes
Researchers at the Wyss Institute have developed next-generation tympanostomy tubes with an innovative material design that significantly reduces biofouling, implant size, need for revision surgeries, and promotes drug delivery into the...
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Why Brain Science Needs an Edit | Mu-ming Poo || Radcliffe Institute
Mu-ming Poo, founding director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, discusses the use of gene-editing tools such as CRISPR in efforts to develop a macaque...
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Tension Pistons
The Tension Piston, developed at the Wyss Institute and MIT CSAIL, amplifies piston force and increases energy efficiency by using flexible materials to transmit fluid-induced tension. The Tension Piston is able to produce substantially...
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Gaga dancers: movement language
Student video from Harvard Theater, Dance & Media course Dance on Camera, spring 2019. Filmed and edited by Meredith Slifkin ‘19 and Joshua Lee ‘20.
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Brain Expansion
Combining two recently developed technologies—expansion microscopy and lattice light sheet microscopy -- researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus, MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a method...
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Romu: A Robot for Environmental Protection
Researchers at the Wyss Institute have developed a robot designed to drive interlocking sheet piles into the ground to help stabilize soil. Teams of such robots could help combat erosion, restore damaged landscapes, and facilitate...
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Barefoot walking
A team of researchers, led by Human Evolutionary Biology Professor Dan Lieberman, studied callouses on two Kenyan populations as a marvel of natural selection’s ability to engineer.
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Soft valves for soft robots
Harvard researchers are taking soft robots to the next level, designing “soft” valves that could one day replace the “hard” parts used in many soft robot designs. The soft valves could allow the robots to work under the harshest...
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Parrots pass classic test of intelligence
Researchers in Harvard’s Psychology Department conduct a four-cup test on an African grey parrot. Rewards are placed in one cup of each pair, then one cup in a pair is shown to be empty. Successful subjects will then pick the other cup...
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Liquid Gated Membrane
The first part of this animation compares the transmembrane pressure (TMP) between a standard filter and a liquid gated membrane filter (depicted by pressure gauge in bottom right corner). The second part of the animation shows the...
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Harvard University: Bio Visions: Powering the Cell: Mitochondria
The inner workings of human cells are shown in this amazing animation focusing on mitochondria. The movie is accompanied by music. [2:09]