Local News Maryland Biotech CEO: Virus Outbreak Won’t Stop Opening of Boston R&D Hub Boston Business Journal | March 23, 2020 A global pandemic isn’t stopping a Maryland biotech from staffing a new R&D hub in…sciencecityMarch 23, 2020 Read More
Local News Scientists Identify Factors for Predicting Which Patients with Ovarian Cancer Won’t Benefit from Immunotherapy-Parp Inhibitor Combination Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | March 23, 2020 In patients with advanced ovarian cancer, a combination of drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors…sciencecityMarch 23, 2020 Read More
Featured Awards Margaret O’Connor Receives Charles Terner Award Boston University | March 20, 2020 Margaret O’Connor, MCBB PhD candidate of the Man Lab, is this year’s recipient of the Charles…sciencecityMarch 20, 2020 Read More
Local News “Inactive” Pill Ingredients Could Raise the Dose of Your Medication MIT News | March 20, 2020 The average medication contains a mix of eight “inactive” ingredients added to pills to make…sciencecityMarch 20, 2020 Read More
Featured Awards Amy Gottlieb receives Elnora Rhodes Service Award from Society of General Internal Medicine UMass Med Now | March 19, 2020 UMass Medical School-Baystate faculty leader Amy S. Gottlieb, MD, has been named recipient of the…sciencecityMarch 19, 2020 Read More
Local News Biotech Pushes Blood Disorder Cell Therapy to Clinic after $80M Round Boston Business Journal | March 19, 2020 With new financing in its pocket, a Flagship Pioneering-backed cell therapy startup is ready to begin…sciencecityMarch 19, 2020 Read More
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