Awards Alain Viel Named Chairholder for Unesco Chair on Life Sciences and Social Innovation Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | October 9, 2023 Alain Viel has taken the helm of the UNESCO Chair on Life Sciences and Social…sciencecityOctober 9, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Spatially Aware Deep Learning Reveals Tumor Heterogeneity Patterns That Encode Distinct Kidney Cancer States Nyman, J., et al. | October 9, 2023 Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is molecularly heterogeneous, immune infiltrated, and selectively sensitive to…sciencecityOctober 9, 2023 Read More
Local News Science for Living: Understanding Preeclampsia, Its Toll on Black Women and a Promising Therapeutic on the Way UMass Chan Medical School | October 9, 2023 When three-time Olympic track and field medalist Tori Bowie, a Black woman, was found dead…sciencecityOctober 9, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Assessment and Validation of Enrichment and Target Capture Approaches to Improve Mycobacterium tuberculosis WGS from Direct Patient Samples Mann, B., et al. | October 6, 2023 Within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) diversity may detect antibiotic resistance or predict tuberculosis treatment failure and is…sciencecityOctober 6, 2023 Read More
Awards Marvin Caruthers Receives Inaugural Merkin Prize in Ceremony at the Broad Institute for DNA Synthesis Technology Broad Institute | October 6, 2023 The inaugural Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology was awarded to Marvin H. Caruthers…sciencecityOctober 6, 2023 Read More
Local News New Research Shows That RNA-Guided Enzymes Called Fanzors Are Widespread Among Eukaryotic Organisms. McGovern Institute | October 6, 2023 A diverse set of species, from snails to algae to amoebas, make programmable DNA-cutting enzymes…sciencecityOctober 6, 2023 Read More
Local News How a Single Neuron’s Parallel Outputs Can Coordinate Many Aspects of Behavior MIT News | October 5, 2023 A new MIT study that focuses on a single cell in one of nature’s simplest…sciencecityOctober 5, 2023 Read More
Local News Cancer Immunotherapy Candidate Provokes Powerful Dual Response in Cancer and Immune Cells Broad Institute | October 5, 2023 Cancer immunotherapy drugs called PD-1 inhibitors are widely used to stimulate the immune system to…sciencecityOctober 5, 2023 Read More
Awards Golden Goose Awarded for “Impossible” Success of Nanopore DNA Sequencing Harvard University | October 5, 2023 Dr. Daniel Branton, Harvard’s Higgins Professor of Biology, Emeritus, and his collaborators Dr. David Deamer…sciencecityOctober 5, 2023 Read More
Local News Human Brain Seems Impossible to Map. What If We Started with Mice? The Harvard Gazette | October 4, 2023 The human brain is a tangled highway of wires emanating from nearly 100 billion neurons,…sciencecityOctober 4, 2023 Read More