If you ever see any science reporting about research coming out of Harvard, MIT, or a similar school, you should just assume it's nothing.
The schools often produce good research, but science reporting is uniformly garbage, and the those schools have incredibly well-oiled PR machines that exploit that reporting. The point of this sort of thing is to get you to either apply to that school, or to make alumni proud enough to send them money.
the way the lab head guy pulls the 6-well plate out of the incubator and holds it up, i guarantee thats also the first time hes been in the actual lab itself in about ten years and he probably barely knows what hes looking at himself cos all his phd students and postdocs on poverty wages are doing all the actual work while he mostly bullshits for grants
If you ever see any science reporting about research coming out of Harvard, MIT, or a similar school, you should just assume it's nothing.
The schools often produce good research, but science reporting is uniformly garbage, and the those schools have incredibly well-oiled PR machines that exploit that reporting. The point of this sort of thing is to get you to either apply to that school, or to make alumni proud enough to send them money.
It's pretty funny seeing the guy hold up a petri dish for the reporter who has no idea what he's looking at.
the way the lab head guy pulls the 6-well plate out of the incubator and holds it up, i guarantee thats also the first time hes been in the actual lab itself in about ten years and he probably barely knows what hes looking at himself cos all his phd students and postdocs on poverty wages are doing all the actual work while he mostly bullshits for grants
NASA scientists CONFIRM existence of OIL inside SATURN!!!