Awards Dr. Sophie Claudel Awarded American Kidney Fund Grant Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | April 28, 2026 Sophie Claudel, MD, has received a 2026 research grant from the American Kidney Fund’s (AKF)…karnottApril 28, 2026 Read More
Local News New Findings Uncover a 3D DNA Switch in Brown Fat That Could Fight Obesity and Diabetes Joslin Diabetes Center | April 28, 2026 Most fat stores energy; the body’s brown fat does the opposite. Unlike the white fat…karnottApril 28, 2026 Read More
Awards Professor Michael Laub and MIT Alumni Named 2025 AAAS Fellows MIT News | April 27, 2026 MIT Professor Michael T. Laub as well as 21 MIT alumni have been elected as…karnottApril 27, 2026 Read More
Local News Forging Paths to Healing, From Immunology to the Biomedical Pipeline Harvard Medical School | April 27, 2026 Leonard Nettey almost missed out on one of the most meaningful opportunities of his life.…karnottApril 27, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Synthetic Control of Implanted Engineered Liver Tissue Growth Stoddard, A., et al. | April 27, 2026 Despite the promise of engineered tissue implants for the treatment of organ failure, scaling of…karnottApril 27, 2026 Read More
Awards Dr. Katsuhiko Minami Awarded Two Postdoctoral Fellowships to Support Biophysics Research of Meiotic Chromosomes Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | April 24, 2026 Dr. Katsuhiki Minami, an MCB postdoctoral researcher in Nancy Kleckner’s lab, has been awarded two…karnottApril 24, 2026 Read More
Local News Dana-Farber Phase 1 Study Explores Toxicity Reduction in Combination of Trastuzumab Deruxtecan and Olaparib in Advanced HER2-Expressing Malignancies Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | April 24, 2026 A phase 1 study aiming to test tolerability of combination therapy with trastuzumab deruxtecan and…karnottApril 24, 2026 Read More
Awards Harvard Medical School Professor Stuart Orkin Wins 2026 Breakthrough Prize Harvard Medical School | April 24, 2026 Dr. Stuart Orkin, the Harvard Medical School David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at…karnottApril 24, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Songbird Connectome Reveals Tunneling of Migratory Neurons in the Adult Striatum Shvedov, N., et al. | April 23, 2026 Immature neurons in the adult brain migrate into existing circuits, contributing to plasticity, learning, and…karnottApril 23, 2026 Read More
Local News Small Model, Big Insight: RNA Structure Rules Emerge from Minimal Data Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | April 23, 2026 MCB Senior Research Fellow Elena Rivas and colleagues have demonstrated that the fundamental rules governing…karnottApril 23, 2026 Read More