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Mindfulness interventions can change health behaviors – Integrated model helps to explain how they work

November 10, 2020 sarah Jonas Harvard, Healthy Living, Meditation, Mental Health, Mindfulness, NIH, Psychiatric, Psychiatry

A growing body of evidence supports the effectiveness of mindfulness approaches to promote positive changes in health behaviors. New neurobiologically based models of “mindful self-regulation” help to explain the how mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) work to help people make healthy behavior changes, according to a review in the November/December issue of Harvard Review of Psychiatry. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

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Accelerating the Development of New Medicines

October 29, 2020 sarah Jonas Harvard

Five research projects with exceptional promise to deliver new life-changing and health-altering therapies have received the inaugural Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards (BTCA) at Harvard Medical School.

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Tracking COVID-19: New research app will help trace the spread of the virus

May 21, 2020 sarah Jonas APP, COVID-19, Harvard, symptom tracker, Texas, University Of Texas Health Science Center At Houston

As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in the U.S., a new free research app is hoping to slow the outbreak of the disease by tracking symptoms of millions across the country. To bring the app home to Texans, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have joined the national research project led by Harvard University.

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Harvard scientists, Chinese colleagues to collaborate on coronavirus research

February 24, 2020 sarah Jonas Coronavirus, COVID-19, Harvard

Harvard University scientists will collaborate with Chinese colleagues to elucidate the basic biology of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and the resulting disease, toward new diagnostic tools, vaccine development and antiviral therapies. The collaboration is part of a $115 million research initiative funded by China Evergrande Group.

Research Results

Right Place, Right Time

February 19, 2020 sarah Jonas Alzheimer's, Harvard

Harvard researchers have discovered a new mechanism for how the brain and its arteries communicate to supply blood to areas of heightened neural activity. The findings enable new avenues of study into the role of this process in neurological diseases.

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Technique Can Label Many Specific DNAs, RNAs, or Proteins in a Single Tissue Sample

February 15, 2020 sarah Jonas biomolecular engineering, Biophysical Society, Biophysical Society 64th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, BPS, BPS20, DNA, Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University

A new technique can label diverse molecules and amplify the signal to help researchers spot those that are especially rare. Called SABER (signal amplification by exchange reaction), Peng Yin’s lab at Harvard’s Wyss Institute first introduced this method last year and since have found ways to apply it to proteins, DNA and RNA.

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Native Americans did not make large-scale changes to environment prior to European contact

January 20, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Archaeology, Binghamton, Binghamton University, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecology, Environment, fire, Forests, Harvard, Harvard University, History, Land Use, National Science Foundation, Native Americans, Native People, State University of New York at Binghamton, SUNY Binghamton, Sustainability

Contrary to long-held beliefs, humans did not make major changes to the landscape prior to European colonization, according to new research conducted in New England featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York. These new insights into the past could help to inform how landscapes are managed in the future.