Local News Mass General Hospital Researchers Identify Potential Therapy for Liver Disease in People Living with HIV Mass General News | October 16, 2019 A team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) led by Steven Grinspoon, MD, has identified a…sciencecityOctober 16, 2019 Read More
Local News CRISPR Enzyme Programmed to Kill Viruses in Human Cells Broad Institute | October 14, 2019 Many of the world’s most common or deadly human pathogens are RNA-based viruses — Ebola,…sciencecityOctober 14, 2019 Read More
Local News Ra Pharma Acquired for $2.1B by Belgian Firm That Vows to Grow in Boston Boston Business Journal | October 11, 2019 Ra Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is in late-stage trials of a drug to treat a rare…sciencecityOctober 11, 2019 Read More
Local News New Method Visualizes Groups of Neurons as They Compute MIT News | October 11, 2019 Using a fluorescent probe that lights up when brain cells are electrically active, MIT and…sciencecityOctober 11, 2019 Read More
Local News Long Live the Worm Northeastern University | October 10, 2019 Scientists have discovered how to make a certain kind of worm live ten times as…sciencecityOctober 10, 2019 Read More
Local News Flagship Pioneering rolls out another startup, Cygnal, with $65M in backing Boston Business Journal | October 9, 2019 Another company has rolled down Flagship Pioneering’s conveyor belt: Cygnal Therapeutics, which hopes to stop…sciencecityOctober 9, 2019 Read More
Local News How to Improve Therapies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Broad Institute | October 9, 2019 About three million people in the United States suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and…sciencecityOctober 9, 2019 Read More
Local News New Capsule Can Orally Deliver Drugs That Usually Have to Be Injected MIT News | October 9, 2019 Many drugs, especially those made of proteins, cannot be taken orally because they are broken…sciencecityOctober 9, 2019 Read More
Local News William G. Kaelin, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute wins 2019 Nobel Prize Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | October 8, 2019 William G. Kaelin Jr., MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s…sciencecityOctober 8, 2019 Read More
Local News Platelet BioGenesis Receives Contract Worth Up to $56 Million from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to Develop Human Stem Cell-Derived Platelets as a Medical Countermeasure to Radiological and Nuclear Exposure BioSpace | October 8, 2019 Platelet Biogenesis Inc. (PBG), the leader in stem cell-derived, on-demand human platelets (PLTs+™) and genetically engineered…sciencecityOctober 8, 2019 Read More