Local News Micro-Scaled Method Holds Promise as Improved Cancer Diagnostic Platform Broad Institute | January 28, 2020 Using a single-needle biopsy and new technology for tumor diagnosis developed by Baylor College of…sciencecityJanuary 28, 2020 Read More
Local News Mass General Researchers Uncover a Novel Communication between Intestinal Microbes and Developing Immune Cells in the Thymus Mass General News | January 27, 2020 Newborns face unique immunological challenges immediately after birth. As they depart a relatively sterile fetal…sciencecityJanuary 27, 2020 Read More
Local News FDA Approves Local Biotech’s First Rare-Cancer Drug Boston Business Journal | January 27, 2020 The FDA has approved the first-ever commercial cancer treatment from Cambridge biotech Epizyme Inc. Just…sciencecityJanuary 27, 2020 Read More
Local News Researchers Hope to Make Needle Pricks for Diabetics a Thing of the Past MIT News | January 27, 2020 Patients with diabetes have to test their blood sugar levels several times a day to…sciencecityJanuary 27, 2020 Read More
Local News The New Front against Antibiotic Resistance MIT News | January 27, 2020 After Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in 1928, spurring a “golden age” of drug development,…sciencecityJanuary 27, 2020 Read More
Featured Awards Dana-Farber Nurse Practitioner Honored by American Cancer Society Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | January 27, 2020 The American Cancer Society recently presented Eileen Duffey-Lind, MSN, CPNP, a pediatric nurse practitioner at…sciencecityJanuary 27, 2020 Read More
Local News Printing Objects That Can Incorporate Living Organisms MIT News | January 27, 2020 A method for printing 3D objects that can control living organisms in predictable ways has…sciencecityJanuary 27, 2020 Read More
Local News Akcea and Ionis Report Positive Topline Phase 2 Results of Akcea-Apociii-L Rx BioSpace | January 24, 2020 Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKCA), a majority-owned affiliate of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Ionis Pharmaceuticals,…sciencecityJanuary 24, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Structure-Guided Design of Pure Orthosteric Inhibitors of αIIbβ3 That Prevent Thrombosis but Preserve Hemostasis Adair, B., D., et al. | January 24, 2020 A prevailing dogma is that inhibition of vascular thrombosis by antagonizing platelet integrin αIIbβ3 cannot…sciencecityJanuary 24, 2020 Read More
Local News A Rat Had Basically No Brain. But It Could Still See, Hear, Smell, and Feel. Northeastern University | January 24, 2020 One day, a scientist in Craig Ferris’s lab was scanning the brains of very old rats…sciencecityJanuary 24, 2020 Read More