Local News Exhaled Respiratory Droplets Increase in Number with the Onset of COVID-19 Infection — And with Aging and Obesity Massachusetts General Hospital | February 15, 2021 Superspreading events have distinguished the COVID-19 pandemic from the early outbreak of the disease. Now,…sciencecityFebruary 15, 2021 Read More
Local News Tumor-Suppressor Protein Dynamics Drive Cellular Radiation Survival Harvard Medical School | February 12, 2021 Exposure to radiation can wreak indiscriminate havoc on cells, tissues, and organs. Curiously, however, some…sciencecityFebruary 12, 2021 Read More
Awards Robert Weinberg Receives 2021 Japan Prize MIT | February 12, 2021 The Japan Prize Foundation has named MIT Professor Robert Weinberg as one of the recipients…sciencecityFebruary 12, 2021 Read More
Local News First Patient Dosed in Clinical Trial of Gene Therapy for Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff Diseases UMass Medical School | February 12, 2021 Sio Gene Therapies, a company focused on developing gene therapies to radically transform the lives…sciencecityFebruary 12, 2021 Read More
Local News How the Brain Helps Us Remember What We’ve Seen MIT | February 11, 2021 Ask anyone, from an NFL quarterback scanning the field for open receivers to an air…sciencecityFebruary 11, 2021 Read More
Local News Epigenomic Map Reveals Circuitry of 30,000 Human Disease Regions Broad Institute | February 11, 2021 Twenty years ago this month, the first draft of the human genome was publicly released.…sciencecityFebruary 11, 2021 Read More
Local News Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Deerfield Management Launch Riverway Discoveries Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | February 11, 2021 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Deerfield Management Company, a healthcare investment management firm focused on advancing healthcare through…sciencecityFebruary 11, 2021 Read More
Publications of the Week Regulatory Genomic Circuitry of Human Disease Loci by Integrative Epigenomics Boix, C., et al. | February 10, 2021 Annotating the molecular basis of human disease remains an unsolved challenge, as 93% of disease…sciencecityFebruary 10, 2021 Read More
Local News 3 Questions: Lindsay Case on How Cells Organize and Sense the World MIT | February 10, 2021 Assistant professor of biology Lindsay Case wants to understand the protein complexes called focal adhesions…sciencecityFebruary 10, 2021 Read More
Local News Dynamic, Delicate Grip between Protein Filaments Enables Hearing Harvard Medical School | February 10, 2021 The sense of hearing is, quite literally, a molecular tightrope act. Turns out, it involves…sciencecityFebruary 10, 2021 Read More