Local News Monoclonal Antibodies for COVID-19 Need to Be “Tuned” to the Immune System Massachusetts General Hospital | April 8, 2021 Scientists are keenly interested in monoclonal antibodies as a class of therapeutics for SARS-CoV-2, the…pthomsonApril 8, 2021 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards D’Arbeloff Center Researcher Receives Prestigious NIH Award for Studies on Sex Hormones and Sex Chromosomes Whitehead Institute | April 7, 2021 Rebecca Harris, a physician-scientist at Whitehead Institute’s Brit J. d’Arbeloff Center for Women’s Health, has…pthomsonApril 7, 2021 Read More
Publications of the Week Balancing Cohesin Eviction and Retention Prevents Aberrant Chromosomal Interactions, Polycomb-Mediated Repression, and X-Inactivation Kriz, A. J., et al. | April 7, 2021 Depletion of architectural factors globally alters chromatin structure but only modestly affects gene expression. We revisit the…pthomsonApril 7, 2021 Read More
Local News Thirteen New Alzheimer’s Disease Genes Identified in First-of-Its-Kind Human Genome Study Massachusetts General Hospital | April 7, 2021 In the first study to use whole genome sequencing (WGS) to discover rare genomic variants…pthomsonApril 7, 2021 Read More
Local News Potential New Treatment Strategy for Breast Cancer Cells That Have Spread to the Brain Massachusetts General Hospital | April 7, 2021 New research reveals that when breast cancer cells spread to the brain, they must boost…pthomsonApril 7, 2021 Read More
Local News Synthetic Mucus Can Mimic the Real Thing MIT News | April 6, 2021 More than just a sign of illness, mucus is a critical part of our body’s…pthomsonApril 6, 2021 Read More
Local News An Itching Question The Harvard Gazette | April 6, 2021 Eczema, or atopic dermatitis (AD), is sometimes called “the itch that rashes.” Often, the itch…pthomsonApril 6, 2021 Read More
Local News Matthew Vander Heiden Named Director of the Koch Institute MIT News | April 6, 2021 Matthew Vander Heiden, an MIT professor of biology and a pioneer in the field of…pthomsonApril 6, 2021 Read More
Local News How Industrialized Life Remodels the Microbiome MIT News | April 6, 2021 Thousands of different bacterial species live within the human gut. Most are beneficial, while others…pthomsonApril 6, 2021 Read More
Local News Scientists Create the Next Generation of Living Robots Tufts University | April 5, 2021 Last year, a team of biologists and computer scientists from Tufts University and the University…pthomsonApril 5, 2021 Read More