Local News A New Approach Refining Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Hits a Nerve Whitehead Institute | April 6, 2020 Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating disease in which the body’s own immune system attacks…sciencecityApril 6, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Nociceptive Neurons Respond to Multimodal Stimuli in Manduca Sexta Caron, D., P., et al. | April 3, 2020 The caterpillar Manduca sexta produces a highly stereotyped strike behavior in response to noxious thermal or mechanical…sciencecityApril 3, 2020 Read More
Local News New Sensors Could Offer Early Detection of Lung Tumors MIT News | April 3, 2020 People who are at high risk of developing lung cancer, such as heavy smokers, are…sciencecityApril 3, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles Northeastern Models Are Helping Shape US COVID-19 Policy News@Northeastern | April 2, 2020 Northeastern researchers are part of the network of teams creating models to advise the Trump…sciencecityApril 2, 2020 Read More
Local News RA Capital, OrbiMed Join Autoimmune Disorder Biotech’s $80M Round Boston Business Journal | April 2, 2020 A local biotech is rethinking how to treat autoimmune diseases. It's raised $80 million to…sciencecityApril 2, 2020 Read More
Local News Newly Discovered Enzyme “Square Dance” Helps Generate DNA Building Blocks MIT News | April 2, 2020 How do you capture a cellular process that transpires in the blink of an eye?…sciencecityApril 2, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Heart-on-a-Chip Model with Integrated Extra- and Intracellular Bioelectronics for Monitoring Cardiac Electrophysiology under Acute Hypoxia Liu, H., et al | April 1, 2020 We demonstrated a bioelectronic heart-on-a-chip model for studying the effects of acute hypoxia on cardiac…sciencecityApril 1, 2020 Read More
Local News “Living Drug Factories” Might Treat Diabetes and Other Diseases MIT News | April 1, 2020 One promising way to treat diabetes is with transplanted islet cells that produce insulin when…sciencecityApril 1, 2020 Read More
Local News Targeting Infections Boston College | March 31, 2020 Using a single-atom-thick sheet of graphene to track the electronic signals inherent in biological structures,…sciencecityMarch 31, 2020 Read More
Local News Chemical Mystery Solved: Researchers Discover Molecule’s Unusual Cell-Killing Mechanism Broad Institute | March 31, 2020 Soon after Jake Eaton joined the lab of Stuart Schreiber at the Broad Institute of…sciencecityMarch 31, 2020 Read More