Local News German Biotech Snaps Up Struggling Third Rock-Founded Drugmaker Boston Business Journal | January 17, 2020 A cancer-focused startup founded by one of the biotech industry’s leading investors is being acquired…sciencecityJanuary 17, 2020 Read More
Featured Awards Whitehead Institute Receives $10 Million to Study Sex Chromosomes’ Impact on Women’s Health MIT News | January 16, 2020 The Whitehead Institute has announced that Brit Jepson d’Arbeloff SM '61 — a pioneering engineer,…sciencecityJanuary 16, 2020 Read More
Local News Study: Tool for Thyroid Nodule Evaluation Misses Thyroid Cancers in Children Boston Children's Hospital | January 16, 2020 A thyroid nodule is a solid or fluid-filled lump that forms within the thyroid gland. Most thyroid…sciencecityJanuary 16, 2020 Read More
Featured Awards Windgap Medical and University of Minnesota Twin Cities Receive $3.2 Million NIH Grant to Develop Cyanide Antidote Autoinjector BioSpace | January 16, 2020 Windgap Medical, Inc. and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have received a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes…sciencecityJanuary 16, 2020 Read More
Local News BostonGene Announces Scientific Collaboration with the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital Business Wire | January 16, 2020 BostonGene performs a computational analysis of a patient's genomics and transcriptomics data from solid tumors…sciencecityJanuary 16, 2020 Read More
Local News ‘Coolsculpting’ Inventors Develop New Non-surgical Method for Targeting Fat Mass General News | January 16, 2020 How cool is this: the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) laboratory that invented cryolipolisis or “Coolsculpting,”…sciencecityJanuary 16, 2020 Read More
Local News Dorothy Schafer Lab Shows Gene Therapy Protection of Eyesight in Models of Multiple Sclerosis UMass Medical School | January 16, 2020 New research by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, reveals the molecular process in which synaptic connections…sciencecityJanuary 16, 2020 Read More
Local News A Solid Vaccine for Liquid Tumors Wyss Institute | January 16, 2020 Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a deadly blood cancer that originates in the bone marrow…sciencecityJanuary 16, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles FDA and NIH Let Clinical Trial Sponsors Keep Results Secret and Break the Law Science | January 15, 2020 For 20 years, the U.S. government has urged companies, universities, and other institutions that conduct…sciencecityJanuary 15, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Targeting Rictor Sensitizes SMAD4-Negative Colon Cancer to Irinotecan Wong, C., K., et al. | January 15, 2020 Deciphering molecular targets to enhance sensitivity to chemotherapy is becoming a priority for effectively treating…sciencecityJanuary 15, 2020 Read More