Local News Sars-CoV-2 Hijacks Two Key Metabolic Pathways to Rapidly Replicate in Host Cells Broad Institute | March 18, 2021 Study suggests blocking folate metabolism with oral, prophylactic drugs could reduce viral replication in infected…pthomsonMarch 18, 2021 Read More
Local News Study: One Enzyme Dictates Cells’ Response to a Probable Carcinogen MIT News | March 18, 2021 Varying levels of a DNA repair enzyme can lead to very different outcomes after exposure…pthomsonMarch 18, 2021 Read More
Local News Moderna Begins Testing Its COVID-19 Vaccine in Young Children Boston Business Journal | March 17, 2021 Cambridge's Moderna Inc. has begun testing its Covid-19 vaccine in babies and young children. The…pthomsonMarch 17, 2021 Read More
Local News “Selfish” DNA Helps Bacteria Cheat and Grow in Densely-Packed Microbial Communities MIT Biology | March 17, 2021 Scientists have a term for genes that spread themselves throughout a population at any cost:…pthomsonMarch 17, 2021 Read More
Local News Study Reveals New Clues about the Architecture of X Chromosomes Massachusetts General Hospital | March 17, 2021 Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have uncovered new clues that add to the growing…pthomsonMarch 17, 2021 Read More
Local News Innovative Gene Editing Could Cure Severe Congenital Neutropenia Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | March 17, 2021 Fionn Mulrooney, a cheerful 11-month-old, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, has no idea he has a life-threatening…pthomsonMarch 17, 2021 Read More
Local News Infectious Disease Expert Robert Finberg: COVID Reinfections Rare, but Caution Still Urged UMass Med News | March 16, 2021 Reinfection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus has occurred among people who previously were sick with COVID-19,…sciencecityMarch 16, 2021 Read More
Local News Catching Key Moments of Cancer Progression Whitehead Institute | March 16, 2021 Important moments of cancer — mutation, tumor formation, metastasis — are fleeting, easy-to-miss events. Even…sciencecityMarch 16, 2021 Read More
Local News Researchers Identify Basic Mechanisms that Regulate HIV Expression BU School of Medicine | March 15, 2021 Despite the positive advances that anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) therapy, commonly called anti-retroviral therapy (ART) or highly…sciencecityMarch 15, 2021 Read More
Local News One Year In: Therapeutics Harvard Medical School | March 12, 2021 At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were few answers to be had, particularly…sciencecityMarch 12, 2021 Read More