Local News High-Resolution Probe May Help Unlock Secrets of Brain Function and Neurological Diseases Massachusetts General Hospital | February 17, 2022 How brain cells communicate with one another remains largely cloaked in mystery, but a probe…pthomsonFebruary 17, 2022 Read More
Local News Researchers Identify Novel PARP-Like Enzyme in Mitochondria BU School of Medicine | February 17, 2022 For the first time, BUSM researchers have identified an ADP-ribosyltransferase enzyme that is active in…pthomsonFebruary 17, 2022 Read More
Local News Biohybrid Fish Made from Human Cardiac Cells Swims Like the Heart Beats Harvard John A. Paulson School f Engineering and Applied Sciences | February 15, 2022 Harvard University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from Emory University, have developed the first fully…pthomsonFebruary 15, 2022 Read More
Local News Leah Williams Published in Communications Biology BU Biology | February 15, 2022 Dr. Leah Williams, who recently received her PhD in the Gilmore Lab in the Cell & Molecular…pthomsonFebruary 15, 2022 Read More
Local News First Gene Therapy for Tay-Sachs Disease Successfully Given to Two Children The Conversation | February 15, 2022 Two babies have received the first-ever gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease after over 14 years of development.…pthomsonFebruary 15, 2022 Read More
Local News Researchers Devise Sex-Cell Precursors with Staying Power Massachusetts General Hospital | February 15, 2022 Human primordial germ cells (PGCs) are the early precursors of the eggs (oocytes) and sperm…pthomsonFebruary 15, 2022 Read More
Local News COVID-19-Associated Strokes Link to Higher Disability and Death Risk Massachusetts General Hospital | February 11, 2022 Among the many hard lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic is that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that…pthomsonFebruary 11, 2022 Read More
Local News Research Sheds More Light on Mechanisms Causing Rare Leukemia BPDCN Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | February 11, 2022 A rare leukemia called BPDCN (blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm) is three to four times…pthomsonFebruary 11, 2022 Read More
Local News Study Shows Persistent Antibodies in Infants after COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy Massachusetts General Hospital | February 11, 2022 With the COVID-19 pandemic entering its third year, efforts to mitigate the risk for infection…pthomsonFebruary 11, 2022 Read More
Local News CRISPR-Based Diagnostic Technology Rapidly Detects Different COVID Variants and Other Pathogens Broad Institute | February 10, 2022 Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Princeton University have developed a…pthomsonFebruary 10, 2022 Read More