Local News A New Angle on the Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease: Accumulating Brain MutationsBoston Children's Hospital | May 25, 2022Alzheimer’s disease is marked by a loss of functional neurons in the brain. But what…pthomsonMay 25, 2022 Read More
Local News Computer Model Predicts Dominant SARS-CoV-2 VariantsBroad Institute | May 23, 2022Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the University of Massachusetts Medical…pthomsonMay 23, 2022 Read More
Local News Can We Prevent Antibiotic Resistance?The Brink | May 23, 2022Antibiotics have saved countless lives since they were introduced in the 1940s, curing infections and…pthomsonMay 23, 2022 Read More
Local News Northpond Labs Funds Second Wyss Institute Research ProjectWyss Institute | May 23, 2022The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Northpond Ventures announced today…pthomsonMay 23, 2022 Read More
Local News Science Still Doesn’t Understand How Our Sex Affects Our HealthScientific American | May 20, 2022Heart disease kills more people of all sexes than anything else. But for more women…pthomsonMay 20, 2022 Read More
Local News Circuit Model May Explain How Deep Brain Stimulation Treats Parkinson’s Disease SymptomsThe Picower Institute | May 18, 2022People with Parkinson’s disease and their doctors confront many unknowns, including the answer to exactly…pthomsonMay 18, 2022 Read More
Local News MIT Students and Postdocs Advocate for Increased Federal Support of Scientific Research on Capitol HillMIT News | May 17, 2022Sixteen MIT students and postdocs recently traveled to Washington to advocate for federal funding of…pthomsonMay 17, 2022 Read More
Local News A Better Antibiotic for Tuberculosis TreatmentHarvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health | May 17, 2022Over the past few years of his PhD research, Harim Won has been laying the…pthomsonMay 17, 2022 Read More
Local News Novel Biomaterial Prevents Rejection of Transplants for Type 1 DiabetesMassachusetts General Hospital | May 16, 2022In type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune response attacks the pancreas’s insulin-producing beta cells, leading to…pthomsonMay 16, 2022 Read More
Local News Scents of Belonging: An Olfactory-Oxytocin Pathway for the Social Regulation of Appetite and AvoidanceHarvard University School of Molecular and Cellular Biology | May 16, 2022In a project jointly led by the Kunes and Engert laboratories, co-first authors Caroline Wee, Erin Song, and Maxim Nikitchenko used the…pthomsonMay 16, 2022 Read More