Local News A New View of Heart Health: Mutations Accumulate in the Heart Starting in ChildhoodBoston Children's Hospital | September 22, 2022Why do so many people get heart disease when they get older? We know that…pthomsonSeptember 22, 2022 Read More
Local News Exercise Hormone Reduces Parkinson’s Disease-Associated Brain Degeneration and Symptoms in Animal ModelDana-Farber Cancer Institute | September 22, 2022An exercise-related hormone, irisin, administered to animals with a model of Parkinson’s disease reduced nerve…pthomsonSeptember 22, 2022 Read More
Local News New BU Center for Brain Recovery Aims to Advance Treatments for Stroke, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’sBoston University | September 22, 2022The brain is often compared to a supercomputer, so who better to help neuroscientists figure…pthomsonSeptember 22, 2022 Read More
Local News Tufts Scientists Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve Tuberculosis TreatmentsTufts Now | September 20, 2022Imagine you have 20 new compounds that have shown some effectiveness in treating a disease…sciencecitySeptember 20, 2022 Read More
Local News Germ Cells Move like Tiny BulldozersWhitehead Institute | September 20, 2022Copied to clipboard During fruit fly embryo formation, primordial germ cells — the stem cells…sciencecitySeptember 20, 2022 Read More
Local News David Avigan Named Director of the BIDMC Cancer Center and Senior Vice President of Cancer Services at Beth Israel Lahey HealthBeth Israel Lahey Health | September 19, 2022David Avigan, MD, has been named director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)…sciencecitySeptember 19, 2022 Read More
Local News How a Patient Partnership Is Propelling Cancer ResearchThe Broad Institute | September 19, 2022In the fall of 2018, cancer researcher Corrie Painter began presenting some intriguing early results…sciencecitySeptember 19, 2022 Read More
Local News Advancing DiscoveryHarvard Medical School | September 16, 2022The road to illuminating the biological mysteries of the human body is filled with hurdles,…sciencecitySeptember 16, 2022 Read More
Local News Biologists Glean Insight into Repetitive Protein SequencesMIT News | September 16, 2022About 70 percent of all human proteins include at least one sequence consisting of a…sciencecitySeptember 16, 2022 Read More
Local News By Blocking DNA Repair, Drug Combination Proves Lethal to Hard-to-Treat Tumor CellsDana-Farber Cancer Institute | September 15, 2022Of all the mutated, blundering, havoc-wreaking genes in cancer cells, few are more ubiquitous than…sciencecitySeptember 15, 2022 Read More