Harvard Medical School

Jan. 21, 2008

In Print

Graham Ramsay

Expression Studies of Malaria Parasite Uncover Distinct Forms
A recent study of the malaria parasite shows that scientists do not know this nemesis as well as they thought. Gene expression analysis of Plasmodium falciparum identified three distinct patterns in the microchip data: one was familiar; a second cluster showed the opposite genes turned on or off; and a third group correlated with more severe disease. It is too soon to know if this version of the parasite causes worse disease, but that is one of the thrusts of this research, said first author Johanna Daily (pictured), who spends most of her time in the HSPH lab of Dyann Wirth.

Upcoming

Youth Violence in America: What's Dueling Got to Do with It?

Thursday, January 31
12:20–1:20 p.m.

Speaker:
Deborah Prothrow-Stith

Lab Works

A multimedia site featuring Harvard Medical research.

Science Progress

A new HMS site tracing progress in health care through funding, science, and discovery.

Spotlight

New Pathology Website Goes Live
The Department of Pathology has launched a striking new website, which brings the School closer to completing the migration of HMS web pages to newer servers and decreases the chance of outdated materials being accessible on the web.

Student Scene

Graham Ramsay

The Politics of Paying for a Child’s Care
Ellen Rothman describes a health care maze she had to work through to find specialty services for an uninsured teenager with a chronic disease.

Liza Green, HMS Media Services

Student Research Has Its Day
One of three student speakers on Soma Weiss Day, Lior Braunstein (above) described his work on a powerful angiogenesis inhibitor and its role in immune surveillance.