Help from Unexpected Corners
heat tolerance Solutions to climate change often bring to mind engineering or international policy. At HMS, however, one effort arose from an unexpected corner: genetics. “Climate change has been coming for a long time, now, and there are many in our department who feel we as geneticists have a responsibility to do something about it—work to slow, halt, or reverse it as well as prepare the living world for the consequences of it,” said Chao-Ting Wu, professor of genetics in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS. “The pandemic has only further emphasized the urgency of addressing climate ch...
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