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
Local News Exploring Autism by Way of Three Rare Genetic Disorders Boston Children's Hospital | October 8, 2019 Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is now believed to affect 1 in 59 children in the…sciencecityOctober 8, 2019 Read More
Local News Light Shed on Century-Old Riddle of Chromosome Pairing Wyss Institute | October 7, 2019 How homologous chromosomes in the body’s cells pair along their entire lengths is a century-old…sciencecityOctober 7, 2019 Read More
Local News Growing Tumors in a Dish, Scientists Try to Personalize Pancreatic Cancer Treatment STAT News | October 7, 2019 Only about 15% of advanced pancreatic patients are alive two years after their diagnosis. Margaret…sciencecityOctober 7, 2019 Read More
Local News Artificial Gut Aims to Expose the Elusive Microbiome MIT News | October 4, 2019 The microbiome is a collection of trillions of bacteria that reside in and on our…sciencecityOctober 4, 2019 Read More
Local News Engineered Viruses Could Fight Drug Resistance MIT News | October 4, 2019 In the battle against antibiotic resistance, many scientists have been trying to deploy naturally occurring…sciencecityOctober 4, 2019 Read More