Publications of the Week Epigenetic Modulation Through BET Bromodomain Inhibitors as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Progranulin-Deficient Frontotemporal Dementia Rosenthal, Z., et al. | May 3, 2024 Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder with currently no disease-modifying treatment options available.…karnottMay 3, 2024 Read More
Local News Science Communication Competition Brings Research into the Real World MIT News | May 2, 2024 Laurence Willemet remembers countless family dinners where curious faces turned to her with shades of…karnottMay 2, 2024 Read More
Local News Study Furthers Understanding of Lung Regeneration Healthcare in Europe | May 2, 2024 Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University (BU) announced findings from a new…karnottMay 2, 2024 Read More
Local News Co-Transplantation of Regulatory T Cells Improves Cell Replacement Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease Massachusetts General Hospital | May 1, 2024 The motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) correlate with selective, progressive degeneration of midbrain dopamine…karnottMay 1, 2024 Read More
Local News When an Antibiotic Fails: MIT Scientists Are Using AI to Target “Sleeper” Bacteria MIT News | May 1, 2024 Since the 1970s, modern antibiotic discovery has been experiencing a lull. Now the World Health…karnottMay 1, 2024 Read More
Local News PhD Candidate Engineers New RNA Sequences to Enable mRNA-Based Therapeutics UMass Chan Medical School | April 30, 2024 PhD candidate Seden Bedir, MSc, moved from Turkey to the United States to attend the…karnottApril 30, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Placental Senescence Pathophysiology Is Shared Between Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Preeclampsia in Mouse and Human | April 30, 2024 Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a form of heart failure linked to preeclampsia. Roh et al. found that secreted…karnottApril 30, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Glial Activity Load on PET Reveals Persistent “Smoldering” Inflammation in MS Despite Disease-Modifying Treatment Tarun, S., et al. | April 30, 2024 18F-PBR06-PET targeting 18-kDa translocator protein can detect abnormal microglial activation (MA) in multiple sclerosis (MS).…karnottApril 30, 2024 Read More
Awards Dr. Mara Murray Horwitz Receives $150K March of Dimes Research Grant Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | April 26, 2024 Mara Murray Horwitz, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine and a primary care clinician at…karnottApril 26, 2024 Read More
Local News Plastic Degradation Company, Breaking, Emerges from Stealth with Naturally-Derived Solution to Degrade Multiple Plastics with $10.5M in Seed Funding Wyss Institute | April 26, 2024 Breaking, a plastic degradation and synthetic biology company, gestated at Colossal Biosciences based on a…karnottApril 26, 2024 Read More