January 25, 1999

Biological Clock Is Even More Elegant than Believed A team of researchers led by Steve Reppert has discovered that the same mechanism controls the clock's internal and output genes.

New Study Finds Seriously Ill Older Patients Receive Less Life-Sustaining Care than Younger Patients Who Are Comparably Ill $6 Million Gift Establishes The Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research Perspectives on Dreaming: A Call for Integrating Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approaches to Dream Studies Guidance Labels Play Role in Forebrain Development

The Second Annual Ruth Sager Memorial Symposium Biology of Breast Cancer--Clues from the Clinic Arthur Pardee Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Debajit Biswas Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Barbara Smith Massachusetts General Hospital January 27th 5:30 - 9:00 pm

Explaining the Chance of Death While Preserving Hope Ellen Rothman, HMS '98, explores the balance between letting parents know that their child might die and protecting them from the shocking news.