Local News Vertex Snaps Up Cambridge Diabetes Startup Semma for $950M Boston Business Journal | September 5, 2019 Vertex Pharmaceuticals has struck a deal to acquire local diabetes-focused startup Semma Therapeutics, marking another…sciencecitySeptember 5, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Bacterial Metabolic State More Accurately Predicts Antibiotic Lethality than Growth Rate Lopatkin, J., A., et al. | September 4, 2019 Growth rate and metabolic state of bacteria have been separately shown to affect antibiotic efficacy.…sciencecitySeptember 4, 2019 Read More
Local News In High-Risk Neuroblastoma, Two Stem Cell Transplants May Be Better than One Boston Children's Hospital | September 4, 2019 Since the early 1990s, chemotherapy followed by an autologous stem cell transplant has been the…sciencecitySeptember 4, 2019 Read More
Local News Exposing How Pancreatic Cancer Does Its Dirty Work Harvard Gazette | September 3, 2019 Organ-on-a-chip study reveals mechanism that destroys and replaces nearby blood vessels, driving malignancy. Pancreatic cancer…sciencecitySeptember 3, 2019 Read More
Local News An Apple a Day: Healthy Foods Matter More than Type of Diet in Reducing Risk of Heart Disease Harvard Medical School | September 3, 2019 Achieving or maintaining a healthy body weight is one key to preventing cardiovascular disease. But…sciencecitySeptember 3, 2019 Read More
Local News Pioneering Microbiome Findings Shed Light on Aspiration Boston Children's Hospital | September 2, 2019 When children have respiratory infections, clinicians tend to blame gastroesophageal reflux, based on the assumption…sciencecitySeptember 2, 2019 Read More
Local News Lab-on-a-Chip May Help Identify New Treatments for Liver Disease Mass General News | September 2, 2019 Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)—the accumulation of liver fat in people who drink little or…sciencecitySeptember 2, 2019 Read More
Local News Pancreas on a Chip Harvard Gazette | August 30, 2019 Harvard scientists have combined organ-on-a-chip and stem-cell technologies to make a powerful tool for diabetes…sciencecityAugust 30, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Resolving Medulloblastoma Cellular Architecture by Single-Cell Genomics Filbin, M., et al. | August 30, 2019 Medulloblastoma is a malignant childhood cerebellar tumour type that comprises distinct molecular subgroups. Whereas genomic…sciencecityAugust 30, 2019 Read More
Local News How a Zebrafish Model May Hold a Key to Biology Harvard Gazette | August 29, 2019 Teaching a computer to behave like a zebrafish wasn’t Martin Haesemeyer’s goal. In fact, the…sciencecityAugust 29, 2019 Read More