The Given Institute’s popular summer series of lectures begins Thursday with a talk by Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, titled “The Human Genome Project: Profit and Potential.” The theme of the Institute’s free ...

An MIT scientist who’s work spanned from creating the Apple Jacks cereal to finding new ways to detect disease-causing mutations in humans passed away Christmas eve at age 79. Before diving into ...

While it is becoming increasingly common (and easy) for lectures to be placed online as videos or podcasts, such media can often be very limited in their utility. For example, I missed a lecture last ...