Awards Whitehead Institute Graduate Student Kristina Lopez Receives Ford Foundation Fellowship Whitehead Institute | June 10, 2020 Kristina Lopez, a first-year graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working in Whitehead…eabramovichJune 10, 2020 Read More
Local News Research Highlights Immune Molecule’s Complex Role in Huntington’s Disease MIT News | June 10, 2020 More than a decade before people with Huntington’s disease (HD) show symptoms, they can exhibit…eabramovichJune 10, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week The Perlman Syndrome DIS3L2 Exoribonuclease Safeguards Endoplasmic Reticulum-Targeted mRNA Translation and Calcium Ion Homeostasis Pirouz, M., et al. | June 9, 2020 DIS3L2-mediated decay (DMD) is a surveillance pathway for certain non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) including ribosomal RNAs…eabramovichJune 9, 2020 Read More
Local News Object Origins Harvard Medical School | June 9, 2020 Every year, an estimated 48 million Americans get sick from foodborne illnesses, resulting in some 128,000 hospitalizations…eabramovichJune 9, 2020 Read More
Local News Researchers Shed Light on Serotonin’s Role in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | June 9, 2020 Affecting an estimated 22 million American adults older than 40, obstructive sleep apnea occurs when…eabramovichJune 9, 2020 Read More
Local News Researchers Identify Secretion Mechanisms for a Protein Necessary for Maintaining Healthy Connective Tissue Structure BU School of Medicine | June 8, 2020 Researchers have discovered that a defective form of the protein aortic carboxypeptidase-like protein (ACLP) from…eabramovichJune 8, 2020 Read More
Local News Researchers Discover New Member of Novel Drug Family for ‘Undruggable’ Targets Broad Institute | June 8, 2020 In the last several years, excitement has surged for a promising class of drugs that…eabramovichJune 8, 2020 Read More
Local News Sleep, Death and … the Gut? Harvard Medical School | June 8, 2020 The first signs of insufficient sleep are universally familiar. There’s tiredness and fatigue, difficulty concentrating,…eabramovichJune 8, 2020 Read More
Local News OMNIVAX: Broadly Deployable Infection Vaccine Platform Wyss Institute | June 5, 2020 Infectious diseases pose one of the greatest threats to public health, and vaccination campaigns with…eabramovichJune 5, 2020 Read More
Local News MD/PhD-Student-Led Research Finds Potential New Gene Target for Pediatric Liver Cancer UMass Medical School | June 5, 2020 A team of UMass Medical School researchers has identified a promising new therapeutic target in…eabramovichJune 5, 2020 Read More