Local News A COVID-19 DNA Nanoswitch: A New Kind of Test for a New Kind of Virus Boston Children’s Hospital | October 28, 2020 When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down research laboratories across the country, several labs at Boston…eabramovichOctober 28, 2020 Read More
Local News Researchers Create Human Airway Stem Cells from Patients’ Cells, Advancing Regenerative Research for Lung Diseases Boston Medical Center | October 28, 2020 For the first time, researchers have successfully created airway basal stem cells in vitro from induced pluripotent…eabramovichOctober 28, 2020 Read More
Local News Neuron-Based Gene Expression Study Reveals Insights on Fear and Its Regulation McLean Hospital | October 27, 2020 Fear and fear extinction learning (the gradual reduction of fear by repeated exposure to the…eabramovichOctober 27, 2020 Read More
Local News UMMS Scientists to Expand 4D Nucleome Research with $13 Million NIH Grants UMass Med Now | October 27, 2020 Investigators at UMass Medical School have received two, five-year grants totaling $13 million to explore…eabramovichOctober 27, 2020 Read More
Local News How Do Our Immune Systems Develop in the First Days of Life? Technology Networks | October 27, 2020 Within the womb, a human fetus benefits from the protection of the placenta, limiting their…eabramovichOctober 27, 2020 Read More
Local News Getting to the Roots of Fragile X Syndrome Tufts Now | October 27, 2020 The cause of fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common inherited intellectual disability, is easy…eabramovichOctober 27, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Persistence and Decay of Human Antibody Responses to the Receptor Binding Domain of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein in COVID-19 Patients Iyer, A.S., et al. | October 26, 2020 The authors show that antibody responses to the receptor binding domain of the spike protein…eabramovichOctober 26, 2020 Read More
Local News Biopreservation Could Revolutionize the Future of Medicine — How Mass General Researchers are Helping Us Get There Mass General Research Institute | October 26, 2020 From Star Wars to the Captain America franchise and beyond, the film world is filled…eabramovichOctober 26, 2020 Read More
Awards Six MIT Alumni Named to 2020 Fortune 40 Under 40 List Slice of MIT | October 26, 2020 To mark a year of “monumental change,” the editors of Fortune say they decided to upend the…eabramovichOctober 26, 2020 Read More
Local News Sarepta, Continuing Its Gene Therapy Push, Helps Launch a Startup BioPharma Dive | October 23, 2020 Sarepta is best known for its RNA technology platform, which has led to two approved…eabramovichOctober 23, 2020 Read More