Local News Neuroscientists Discover a Molecular Mechanism that Allows Memories to Form MIT News | October 7, 2020 When the brain forms a memory of a new experience, neurons called engram cells encode…eabramovichOctober 7, 2020 Read More
Local News BioMarin Snags Stem Cell Pioneer Kevin Eggan to Lead Early R&D Fierce Biotech | October 6, 2020 Nearly two months after the FDA nixed its hemophilia gene therapy, BioMarin has a new…eabramovichOctober 6, 2020 Read More
Local News Nanoparticles Can Turn Off Genes in Bone Marrow Cells MIT News | October 6, 2020 Using specialized nanoparticles, MIT engineers have developed a way to turn off specific genes in…eabramovichOctober 6, 2020 Read More
Local News Northeastern Researcher Is Just Happy to be Reunited with Axolotls as Campus Reopens News@Northeastern | October 6, 2020 The first thing James Monaghan, an associate professor of biology at Northeastern, does on a normal…eabramovichOctober 6, 2020 Read More
Awards NIH Awards $35.5 Million to Use Tiny, Bioengineered Organ Models to Improve Clinical Trials’ Development and Design National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences | October 5, 2020 Approximately 85% of late-stage clinical trials of candidate drugs fail because of drug safety problems…eabramovichOctober 5, 2020 Read More
Local News Cancer Researchers Collaborate, Target DNA Damage Repair Pathways for Cancer Therapy MIT News | October 5, 2020 Cancer therapies that target specific molecular defects arising from mutations in tumor cells are currently…eabramovichOctober 5, 2020 Read More
Local News In a First, Alnylam Reports Success Silencing Genes in Children Boston Business Journal | October 2, 2020 Alnylam Pharmaceuticals set the stage for another drug approval after reporting Wednesday that it successfully…eabramovichOctober 2, 2020 Read More
Local News How Cells Build Organisms Harvard Medical School | October 2, 2020 Under a microscope, the first few hours of every multicellular organism’s life seem incongruously chaotic.…eabramovichOctober 2, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles 3 Questions: Nancy Hopkins on Improving Gender Equality in Academia MIT News | October 2, 2020 Over the course of her exceptional career, Amgen Professor of Biology Emerita Nancy Hopkins has…eabramovichOctober 2, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week pH-Gated Succinate Secretion Regulates Muscle Remodeling in Response to Exercise Reddy, A., et al. | October 1, 2020 The authors discovered that exercising muscle selectively releases the mitochondrial metabolite succinate. Once released, succinate…eabramovichOctober 1, 2020 Read More