AwardsFeatured Awards Harvard Medical School Awards and Recognitions: March 2021 Harvard Medical School | March 22, 2021 Michael Moskowitz, HMS professor of neurology at Mass General, was one of four researchers to…pthomsonMarch 22, 2021 Read More
Publications of the Week Interleukin-6 Produced by Enteric Neurons Regulates the Number and Phenotype of Microbe-Responsive Regulatory T Cells in the Gut Yan, Y., et al. | March 19, 2021 The immune and enteric nervous (ENS) systems monitor the frontier with commensal and pathogenic microbes…pthomsonMarch 19, 2021 Read More
Local News Intrigued by Immortality Whitehead Institute | March 19, 2021 New Whitehead Institute director Ruth Lehmann and new Member Yukiko Yamashita study opposite sides of the germ cell life…pthomsonMarch 19, 2021 Read More
Interesting Articles What’s in the Huge Pandemic Relief Bill for Science? Science | March 19, 2021 A massive $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill now on its way to President Joe Biden’s…pthomsonMarch 19, 2021 Read More
Local News Study of Synapse Strength Focuses on ‘Active Zones’ The Picower Institute | March 19, 2021 Job descriptions for the thousands of types of neurons in the brain typically include a…pthomsonMarch 19, 2021 Read More
Local News Of Mice and Men and Leveraging Their Different Tolerance to Pathogens Wyss Institute | March 18, 2021 A mouse intestine-on-chip discovery platform enables the modeling of host-microbiome relations, infectious disease modeling, and…pthomsonMarch 18, 2021 Read More
Local News Sars-CoV-2 Hijacks Two Key Metabolic Pathways to Rapidly Replicate in Host Cells Broad Institute | March 18, 2021 Study suggests blocking folate metabolism with oral, prophylactic drugs could reduce viral replication in infected…pthomsonMarch 18, 2021 Read More
Local News Study: One Enzyme Dictates Cells’ Response to a Probable Carcinogen MIT News | March 18, 2021 Varying levels of a DNA repair enzyme can lead to very different outcomes after exposure…pthomsonMarch 18, 2021 Read More
Local News Moderna Begins Testing Its COVID-19 Vaccine in Young Children Boston Business Journal | March 17, 2021 Cambridge's Moderna Inc. has begun testing its Covid-19 vaccine in babies and young children. The…pthomsonMarch 17, 2021 Read More
Local News “Selfish” DNA Helps Bacteria Cheat and Grow in Densely-Packed Microbial Communities MIT Biology | March 17, 2021 Scientists have a term for genes that spread themselves throughout a population at any cost:…pthomsonMarch 17, 2021 Read More