Local News Beam Therapeutics Announces Collaboration and Exclusive License Agreement with Prime Medicine for Prime Editing TechnologyBeam Therapeutics | November 4, 2019Beam Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, today announced that…sciencecityNovember 4, 2019 Read More
Local News Dicerna Ropes In Roche on Gene-Silencing Deal Worth Up to $1.67BBoston Business Journal | November 1, 2019One of the leading Cambridge biotechs hoping to treat diseases by silencing the underlying genetic…sciencecityNovember 1, 2019 Read More
Local News Immune Response against Skin-Dwelling Viruses Prevents CancerMass General News | November 1, 2019Viruses get a bad rap as potential cancer-causers, but at least one class of viruses…sciencecityNovember 1, 2019 Read More
Local News Chromosomal Abnormalities Uncovered in Many Couples Struggling with Recurrent MiscarriageBrigham and Women's Hospital | November 1, 2019When a couple loses a pregnancy, and especially when the same couple loses multiple pregnancies,…sciencecityNovember 1, 2019 Read More
Local News Disc Medicine Closes $50 Million Series A and Inks Licensing Deal with AbbVieBioSpace | October 31, 2019Disc Medicine, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the completion of a $50 million Series A financing. The…sciencecityOctober 31, 2019 Read More
Local News Skeleton Key: Researchers Reveal Structures of Skeletal Components in Hair-Like CiliaHarvard Medical School | October 31, 2019It’s not every day that scientists get to publish a paper on Halloween about a…sciencecityOctober 31, 2019 Read More
Local News Promising Results Reported in Tay-Sachs Gene Therapy TrialGenetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | October 31, 2019Researchers have obtained the first signs of clinical benefit in an early-stage gene therapy trial…sciencecityOctober 31, 2019 Read More
Local News Biogen and Alkermes Announce FDA Approval of VUMERITY™ (Diroximel Fumarate) for Multiple SclerosisBioSpace | October 31, 2019CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and DUBLIN, Oct. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) and Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) today announced that the U.S.…sciencecityOctober 31, 2019 Read More
Local News Flex Lab Provider SmartLabs Expanding in Kendall SquareBoston Business Journal | October 30, 2019Cambridge-based SmartLabs will open an animal-research facility at 301 Binney St. in Kendall Square, the…sciencecityOctober 30, 2019 Read More
Local News Small Molecule Inhibitor Shows Clinical Activity in Lung and Colorectal Cancer PatientsDana-Farber Cancer Institute | October 30, 2019The investigational KRAS G12C inhibitor MRTX849 yielded clinical responses in patients with non-small cell lung…sciencecityOctober 30, 2019 Read More