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Cure for Diabetes Type 1? New Harvard Research from Doug Melton Promises Significant Leap Towards Cure

Harvard University Research Doug Melton Successfully Reproduces Beta Cells from Stem Cells for Use in Treatment for Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 Patients Is a New Treatment for Diabetes Near? The search for the cure for diabetes mellitus type 1 took a giant leap forward this past week with the announcement from Harvard University scientist Doug […]

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News Headlines May 12, 2013

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Harvard Scientists Use DNA to Store 700 Terabytes of Data

Scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have embedded 5.5 petabits of data into a single gram of DNA. The revolutionary work conducted by George Church and Sri Kosuri treats DNA like any other digital storage unit by synthesizing 96 bit strands of DNA with TGAC representing binary numbers (T and G as 1, A and C as […]

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Harvard Professor says Buffett is wrong.

In a bit of audacity, a Harvard professor states that Warren Buffett’s assessment of the tax situation is erroneous and that tax rates on capital gains and corporate income should be lowered or nearly abolished, rather than raise them as suggested by Buffett so the rich ‘pay their fair share.’ In an argument based around […]

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