Local News Researchers Engineer Insulin-Producing Cells Activated by Light for Diabetes Tufts Now | November 5, 2019 Tufts University researchers have transplanted engineered pancreatic beta cells into diabetic mice, then caused the…sciencecityNovember 5, 2019 Read More
Local News Gene Variant May Help Protect against Alzheimer’s Disease MGH News | November 5, 2019 A new study led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), in collaboration with the…sciencecityNovember 5, 2019 Read More
Local News Annual Vascular Research Meeting to Be Held at Tufts Tufts NOW | November 4, 2019 Tufts University School of Medicine will host the twenty-first annual Boston Angiogenesis Meeting on November…sciencecityNovember 4, 2019 Read More
Local News Beam Therapeutics Announces Collaboration and Exclusive License Agreement with Prime Medicine for Prime Editing Technology Beam Therapeutics | November 4, 2019 Beam 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 $1.67B Boston Business Journal | November 1, 2019 One 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 Cancer Mass General News | November 1, 2019 Viruses 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 Miscarriage Brigham and Women's Hospital | November 1, 2019 When 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 AbbVie BioSpace | October 31, 2019 Disc 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 Cilia Harvard Medical School | October 31, 2019 It’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 Trial Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | October 31, 2019 Researchers have obtained the first signs of clinical benefit in an early-stage gene therapy trial…sciencecityOctober 31, 2019 Read More