Local News Gene-Editing Technique Could Speed Up Study of Cancer Mutations MIT News | May 18, 2023 Genomic studies of cancer patients have revealed thousands of mutations linked to tumor development. However,…pthomsonMay 18, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week ERα-Associated Translocations Underlie Oncogene Amplifications in Breast Cancer Lee, J., et al. | May 18, 2023 Focal copy-number amplification is an oncogenic event. Although recent studies have revealed the complex structure1,2,3 and…pthomsonMay 18, 2023 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Whitehead Institute Member Siniša Hrvatin Named a Searle Scholar Whitehead Institute | May 17, 2023 Whitehead Institute Member Siniša Hrvatin has been named as one of the 15 researchers to…pthomsonMay 17, 2023 Read More
Local News Another Angle on Alzheimer’s: CSF, Proteomics, and Metabolic Enzymes Boston Children's Hospital | May 17, 2023 Currently there are no objective, easily assessed diagnostic markers for Alzheimer’s disease, and no good…pthomsonMay 17, 2023 Read More
Local News Engineers Design Sutures That Can Deliver Drugs or Sense Inflammation MIT News | May 16, 2023 Inspired by sutures developed thousands of years ago, MIT engineers have designed “smart” sutures that…pthomsonMay 16, 2023 Read More
Local News Chemists’ Technique Reveals Whether Antibodies Neutralize SARS-CoV-2 MIT News | May 15, 2023 Antibodies that can disarm a virus, known as neutralizing antibodies, are key to the body’s…pthomsonMay 15, 2023 Read More
Local News Study Reveals Differences in the Airway Response to Allergens Between People With Allergic Asthma and Those With Allergies but No Asthma Massachusetts General Hospital | May 12, 2023 The strongest risk factor for developing asthma is the presence of allergies, but it’s unclear…pthomsonMay 12, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Autologous Neutralizing Antibodies Increase with Early Antiretroviral Therapy and Shape HIV Rebound after Treatment Interruption Esmaeilzadeh, E., et al. | May 12, 2023 Early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) alters viral rebound kinetics after analytic treatment interruption (ATI)…pthomsonMay 12, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Abundant Aβ Fibrils in Ultracentrifugal Supernatants of Aqueous Extracts from Alzheimer’s Disease Brains Stern, A. M., et al. | May 11, 2023 Soluble oligomers of amyloid β-protein (Aβ) have been defined as aggregates in supernatants following ultracentrifugation…pthomsonMay 11, 2023 Read More
Local News How One Lab Uses Machine Learning to Solve a Key Gene Therapy Problem Broad Institute | May 11, 2023 When Ben Deverman joined the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in 2018, he was…pthomsonMay 11, 2023 Read More