Local News Autism-Cholesterol Link Harvard Medical School | August 20, 2020 Researchers at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northwestern University have identified a…eabramovichAugust 20, 2020 Read More
Local News COVID-19 Cytokine Storms May Prevent a Durable Immune Response Massachusetts General Hospital | August 20, 2020 Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD, investigator in the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and professor at…eabramovichAugust 20, 2020 Read More
Local News Study Reveals How Two Sex Chromosomes ‘Talk’ to Each Other to Make a Critical Decision during Development of the Female Embryo Massachusetts General Hospital | August 20, 2020 Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have solved a mystery that has long puzzled scientists:…eabramovichAugust 20, 2020 Read More
Local News New Gene Regulation Model Provides Insight into Brain Development MIT Biology | August 20, 2020 In every cell, RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) help tune gene expression and control biological processes by…eabramovichAugust 20, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week A Switch in p53 Dynamics Marks Cells that Escape from DSB-Induced Cell Cycle Arrest Tsabar, M., et al. | August 19, 2020 In response to DNA damage induced by ionizing irradiation, p53 undergoes oscillatory dynamics with a…eabramovichAugust 19, 2020 Read More
Local News MassBio® Welcomes 18 Principal Investigators to its MassCONNECT PI Summer and COVID-19 Cycles MassBio | August 19, 2020 The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MassBio®) recently kicked off the summer and COVID-19 cycles of its…eabramovichAugust 19, 2020 Read More
Local News How a Biotech CEO Figured Out COVID-19 Surveillance Testing for Fifty Companies with Twelve-Hour Turnaround Times CNBC | August 18, 2020 When the Covid-19 pandemic struck the U.S., young biotech company Verve Therapeutics was just months…eabramovichAugust 18, 2020 Read More
Local News Dana-Farber Launches New Center for the Prevention and Treatment of BRCA-Related Cancers Dana-Farber | August 18, 2020 Of the tens of thousands of genes in the DNA of our cells, one group…eabramovichAugust 18, 2020 Read More
Awards Michelson Prize for MIT’s Dr. Michael Birnbaum Human Vaccines Project | August 18, 2020 Dr. Birnbaum received the Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research 2020 for: “Repertoire-Scale…eabramovichAugust 18, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Epigenetic Transcriptional Reprogramming by WT1 Mediates a Repair Response during Podocyte Injury Ettou, S., et al. | August 17, 2020 The authors examined transcriptional reprogramming during podocyte injury. Podocytes are crucial for maintaining filtration in…eabramovichAugust 17, 2020 Read More