Local News SMART Discovers Nondisruptive Way to Characterize the Surface of Nanoparticles MIT News | November 13, 2019 Researchers from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have made a discovery that…sciencecityNovember 13, 2019 Read More
Local News George Church-Founded Startup Raises $100M toward Transplantable Pig Organs Boston Business Journal | November 12, 2019 Twenty years ago, eGenesis CEO Paul Sekhri watched as his colleagues at Novartis tried and ultimately failed…sciencecityNovember 12, 2019 Read More
Featured Awards John Haran Works to Understand How Microbiome Impacts Development of Alzheimer’s Disease UMass Medical School | November 12, 2019 John P. Haran, MD, PhD, associate professor of emergency medicine and microbiology & physiological systems…sciencecityNovember 12, 2019 Read More
Featured Awards Dan Alford Receives Prestigious John P. McGovern Award BU School of Medicine | November 12, 2019 Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education…sciencecityNovember 12, 2019 Read More
Local News Liver-Chip Identifies Distinct Drug Toxicities in Human, Rat, and Dog Models Wyss Institute | November 12, 2019 Among the numerous microengineered Organ-on-a-Chip (Organ Chip) models developed at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, the Liver…sciencecityNovember 12, 2019 Read More
Local News Sigilon Therapeutics to Present Preclinical Data Showing Six Months Durability for Cell Therapies in Rare Blood Disorders Business Wire | November 8, 2019 -Sigilon Therapeutics announced today that it will present data at the American Society of Hematology Annual…sciencecityNovember 8, 2019 Read More
Local News Boosting Host Immune Defenses to Treat Tuberculosis Boston Children's Hospital | November 8, 2019 Current treatment regimens for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis, are long, complex, and hard…sciencecityNovember 8, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Inducible Histone K-to-M Mutations Are Dynamic Tools to Probe the Physiological Role of Site-Specific Histone Methylation In Vitro and In Vivo Brumbaugh, J., et al. | November 8, 2019 Development and differentiation are associated with profound changes to histone modifications, yet their in vivo…sciencecityNovember 8, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week A Generalized HIV Vaccine Design Strategy for Priming of Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Responses Steichen, J., M., et al. | November 7, 2019 Vaccine induction of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a major…sciencecityNovember 7, 2019 Read More
Local News Unlocking Antibody Diversity: Chromatin Loops, V(D)J Recombination, and Class Switching Boston Children's Hospital | November 7, 2019 A new study from the laboratory of Frederick Alt, PhD, of the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (PCMM) at…sciencecityNovember 7, 2019 Read More