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Remco Chang
June 18, 2013
Collecting massive amounts of information isn’t a big deal—it’s all in the analysis

The recent news that the National Security Agency has been involved in massive information-gathering activities, including widespread acquisition...

June 13, 2013

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. - Qiaobing Xu, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts University School of Engineering, was named...

illustration of tree as spinal cord
June 10, 2013
Laura Wong has coaxed damaged nerve cells to grow and send messages to the brain again

“An ailment not to be treated,” read the prescription for a spinal cord injury on an Egyptian papyrus in 1,700 B.C. Not much has...

DNA sequencing visualized on a computer screen
June 7, 2013
In a decision with broad implications, the Supreme Court is set to rule on a case about ownership of a strand of DNA

In May, the actress Angelina Jolie announced she had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she inherited a faulty copy of the BRCA1 gene,...

June 4, 2013

NORTH GRAFTON, Mass. -- Another piece of the puzzle to better understand and treat obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has fallen into...