Publications of the Week Molecular Basis for Catabolism of the Abundant Metabolite Trans-4-Hydroxy-L-Proline by a Microbial Glycyl Radical Enzyme Backman, L., R., F., et al. | March 19, 2020 The glycyl radical enzyme (GRE) superfamily utilizes a glycyl radical cofactor to catalyze difficult chemical…sciencecityMarch 19, 2020 Read More
Local News Sigilon Therapeutics Announces $80.3 Million Series B Financing to Advance Shielded Living Therapeutics™ to the Clinic Business Wire | March 18, 2020 Sigilon Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing functional cures for patients with chronic diseases through…sciencecityMarch 18, 2020 Read More
Local News A Galaxy of Drug Candidates Harvard Medical School | March 18, 2020 Developing new drugs to treat diseases isn’t easy. As many as 90 percent of promising…sciencecityMarch 18, 2020 Read More
Featured Awards Ed Boyden Wins Prestigious Entrepreneurial Science Award McGovern Institute | March 18, 2020 The Austrian Association of Entrepreneurs announced today that Edward S. Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor…sciencecityMarch 18, 2020 Read More
Local News Personalized Blood Biopsies Demonstrate Potential as Early-Warning Signal of Breast Cancer Recurrence Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | March 17, 2020 Researchers in the Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics at the Broad Institute of MIT and…sciencecityMarch 17, 2020 Read More
Local News More Versatile and Efficient Base Editor Unlocks New Gene-Editing Targets Broad Institute | March 17, 2020 A team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has designed…sciencecityMarch 17, 2020 Read More
Local News Testing a New Addiction Therapy TuftsNow | March 16, 2020 Opioid-use disorder affects two million people in the United States. Although many people with this…sciencecityMarch 16, 2020 Read More
Local News Gasdermin E: A New Approach to Cancer Immunotherapy Boston Children's Hospital | March 16, 2020 Tumors have figured out various ways to prevent the immune system from attacking them. Medicine,…sciencecityMarch 16, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Evolutionary Repair: Changes in Multiple Functional Modules Allow Meiotic Cohesin to Support Mitosis Hsieh, Y., P., et al. | March 13, 2020 The role of proteins often changes during evolution, but we do not know how cells…sciencecityMarch 13, 2020 Read More
Local News Biotech Lures Foreign Investors, Signs COVID-19 Partnership Boston Business Journal | March 13, 2020 For two months, the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus has kept Harbour BioMed CEO Jingsong Wang and…sciencecityMarch 13, 2020 Read More