Publications of the Week Aneuploidy and a Deregulated DNA Damage Response Suggest Haploinsufficiency in Breast Tissues of BRCA2 Mutation Carriers Karaayvaz-Yildirim, M., et al. | February 11, 2020 Women harboring heterozygous germline mutations of BRCA2 have a 50 to 80% risk of developing…sciencecityFebruary 11, 2020 Read More
Local News Minimally Invasive Prostate Procedure Improves Quality of Life BIDMC News | February 11, 2020 Ed Lucia, 74, had lived with an enlarged prostate gland for years, but when increased…sciencecityFebruary 11, 2020 Read More
Local News Getting the Brain’s Attention Harvard Gazette | February 11, 2020 Today, the internet is a sensory free-for-all: Pop-up ads burst into articles every few paragraphs,…sciencecityFebruary 11, 2020 Read More
Local News Inner Workings: Harvard Cryo-EM Center Helps Researchers Transform Biomedical Research, One Structure at a Time Harvard Medical School | February 11, 2020 Throughout history, observations of structure, from Robert Hooke’s cells to the beaks of Charles Darwin’s…sciencecityFebruary 11, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Antioxidant CoQ10 Restores Fertility by Rescuing Bisphenol A-Induced Oxidative DNA Damage in the Caenorhabditis Elegans Germline Carneiro, M., et al. | February 10, 2020 Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are ubiquitously present in our environment, but the mechanisms by which they adversely…sciencecityFebruary 10, 2020 Read More
Local News UMass Medical Plans Clinical Trial for Lyme Disease Treatment Boston Business Journal | February 10, 2020 A preventative treatment for Lyme disease is likely to start clinical trials in humans this…sciencecityFebruary 10, 2020 Read More
Local News Hey, Google? Alexa? Am I At Risk for Alzheimer’s?: UMass Boston Professor Part of $1.1M Research Project UMass Boston News | February 10, 2020 Assistant Professor of Computer Science Xiaohui Liang is leading a four-year $1,179,714 National Institute on Aging (NIA)-funded research project…sciencecityFebruary 10, 2020 Read More
Local News Beam Therapeutics, Base Editing Drug Developer, Raises $180M in IPO Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | February 10, 2020 Beam Therapeutics enjoyed a successful Wall Street debut Thursday, as the first base editing treatments…sciencecityFebruary 10, 2020 Read More
Local News Looking for Clues to Improve the Life of a Transplanted Organ Boston Children's Hospital | February 10, 2020 The Transplant Research Program (TxRP) at Boston Children’s Hospital is the only pediatric transplantation research program in…sciencecityFebruary 10, 2020 Read More
Local News Seeing Blood Stem Cells Where They Live Harvard Stem Cell Institute | February 10, 2020 The stem cells found in bone marrow have saved the lives of thousands of leukemia…sciencecityFebruary 10, 2020 Read More