Local News Human Hearts Evolved for Endurance: Study Makes Breakthrough Finding about Heart Structure and FunctionMGH News | September 18, 2019Major physical changes occurred in the human heart as people shifted from hunting and foraging…sciencecitySeptember 18, 2019 Read More
Local News Study Shows Benefit of PARP Inhibitor for Some Ovarian Cancer PatientsDana-Farber Cancer Research Institute | September 18, 2019For patients with recurrent ovarian cancer that has been brought into remission with platinum-based chemotherapy,…sciencecitySeptember 18, 2019 Read More
Local News Mathematical Model Finds the Cancer Mutations That MatterBroad Institute | September 17, 2019The new tool more accurately distinguishes mutations that drive cancer from ones that don’t, and…sciencecitySeptember 17, 2019 Read More
Local News Babies’ EEG Patterns Predict Whether They Will Develop AutismBoston Children's Hospital | September 17, 2019Signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) typically start to become apparent only in a child’s…sciencecitySeptember 17, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week The Fundamental Role of Chromatin Loop Extrusion in Physiological V(D)J RecombinationZhang, Y., et al. | September 16, 2019The RAG endonuclease initiates Igh V(D)J assembly in B cell progenitors by joining D segments to JH segments,…sciencecitySeptember 16, 2019 Read More
Featured Awards Assistant Biology Professor’s $979K CAREER Grant Will Help Understand Disease Management in Frogs, Human Gut and LungsUMass Boston | September 16, 2019There’s a community of microscopic organisms, called a microbiome, that live on each northern leopard…sciencecitySeptember 16, 2019 Read More
Awards A Silly-Sounding Prize for Some Serious ScienceHarvard Gazette | September 13, 2019Harvard-trained doctor David Sachar and Brigham and Women Hospital’s pathologist and senior lecturer Noel Rose…sciencecitySeptember 13, 2019 Read More
Local News How Breast Cancer Uses Exosomes to Metastasize to the BrainBoston Children's Hospital | September 13, 2019Metastasizing breast cancers typically seek out the bones, lung, and brain. Brain metastases are especially…sciencecitySeptember 13, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week The Flight Response Impairs Cytoprotective Mechanisms by Activating the Insulin PathwayJose De Rosa, M., et al. | September 12, 2019An animal’s stress response requires different adaptive strategies depending on the nature and duration of…sciencecitySeptember 12, 2019 Read More
Local News Trio of Studies Show that Gene Mutation, Tissue Location and Signaling Networks Drive Cancer Incidence and SeverityBIDMC News | September 12, 2019The KRAS gene is one of the commonly mutated genes in cancer. More than 40 percent of…sciencecitySeptember 12, 2019 Read More