Awards Alejandro Balazs Receives NIH Avant Garde Award for Innovative HIV and Substance Use Disorder ResearchRagon Institute | June 12, 2024Ragon faculty member Alejandro Balazs, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious Avant-Garde Award for HIV…karnottJune 12, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Efficient Site-Specific Integration of Large Genes in Mammalian Cells via Continuously Evolved Recombinases and Prime EditingPandey, S., et al. | June 12, 2024Methods for the targeted integration of genes in mammalian genomes suffer from low programmability, low…karnottJune 12, 2024 Read More
Local News New Target in Sight for HIV Vaccine DevelopmentRagon Institute | June 11, 2024Decades into the HIV epidemic, there is as yet no effective vaccine to prevent new…karnottJune 11, 2024 Read More
Awards Ragon Grad Student Awarded Jeffery Modell PrizeRagon Institute | June 11, 2024We are proud to recognize Sophie Giguere, PhD, a Batista Lab graduate student who has…karnottJune 11, 2024 Read More
Awards Harnessing Cancer Metabolomics to Transform Therapeutic DiscoveryMassachusetts General Hospital | June 10, 2024A Massachusetts General Hospital research team is among the inaugural winners of a Breakthrough Award…karnottJune 10, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week The KAT Module of the Saga Complex Maintains the Oncogenic Gene Expression Program in MYCN-Amplified NeuroblastomaMalone, C., et al. | June 10, 2024Pediatric cancers are frequently driven by genomic alterations that result in aberrant transcription factor activity.…karnottJune 10, 2024 Read More
Local News Microscope System Sharpens Scientists’ View of Neural Circuit ConnectionsThe Picower Institute | June 7, 2024The brain’s ability to learn comes from “plasticity,” in which neurons constantly edit and remodel…karnottJune 7, 2024 Read More
Local News New Technique Reveals How Gene Transcription Is Coordinated in CellsMIT News | June 7, 2024The human genome contains about 23,000 genes, but only a fraction of those genes are…karnottJune 7, 2024 Read More
Awards Ten with MIT Connections Win 2024 Hertz Foundation FellowshipsMIT News | June 6, 2024The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced that it has awarded fellowships to 10 PhD…karnottJune 6, 2024 Read More
Local News The Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS in Partnership with ALS Finding a Cure and Fight MND Announce 2024 ALS Scholars in Therapeutics Recipients | June 6, 2024The Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), ALS…karnottJune 6, 2024 Read More