Awards Brandon DeKosky One of Five MIT Faculty Members Awarded by Cancer Grand Challenges Ragon Institute | April 5, 2024 Ragon core member and MIT associate professor of chemical engineering Brandon DeKosky, PhD, was one…karnottApril 5, 2024 Read More
Local News Dr. Andrew E. Place Appointed As Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center Vice President, Pediatric Chief Medical Officer Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | April 5, 2024 Andrew E. Place, MD, PhD, has been named as Vice President, Pediatric Chief Medical Officer…karnottApril 5, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Gut Microbiome and Metabolome Profiling in Framingham Heart Study Reveals Cholesterol-Metabolizing Bacteria Li, C., et al. | April 4, 2024 Accumulating evidence suggests that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is associated with an altered gut microbiome. Our…karnottApril 4, 2024 Read More
Local News Electron Microscopy Snapshots Reveal the Inner Workings of an Insect Fructose Receptor Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | April 4, 2024 Insects affect human lives both positively and negatively, therefore understanding how they interact with their…karnottApril 4, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Skin Biopsy Detection of Phosphorylated α-Synuclein in Patients with Synucleinopathies Gibbons, C., et al. | April 3, 2024 Can skin biopsy detect phosphorylated α-synuclein in individuals with synucleinopathies such as Parkinson disease (PD),…karnottApril 3, 2024 Read More
Local News Deep Brain Stimulation Didn’t Work for a Young OCD Patient Until New Brain Maps Changed Everything CNN | April 3, 2024 Five years ago, in a wheelchair, Julia Hum was admitted to a state mental hospital…karnottApril 3, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Neutrophils Bearing Adhesive Polymer Micropatches as a Drug-Free Cancer Immunotherapy Kumbhojkar, N., et al. | April 2, 2024 Tumour-associated neutrophils can exert antitumour effects but can also assume a pro-tumoural phenotype in the…karnottApril 2, 2024 Read More
Awards Physics Professor Mohamed Amine Gharbi Receives NSF CAREER Award UMass Boston | April 2, 2024 Assistant Professor of Physics Mohamed Amine Gharbi has been honored with a Faculty Early Career…karnottApril 2, 2024 Read More
Local News Ola Gutzeit on Improving Fertility Wyss Institute | April 1, 2024 As a reproductive health specialist in the clinical setting, Ola Gutzeit discovered a lack of effective methods for enhancing…karnottApril 1, 2024 Read More
Local News Reevaluating an Approach to Functional Brain Imaging | April 1, 2024 A new way of imaging the brain with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) does not directly…karnottApril 1, 2024 Read More