Publications of the Week Phototherapy and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Facilitate Removal of Carbon Monoxide in Rats Zazzeron, L., et al. | October 11, 2019 Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless gas that can cause severe illness and death…sciencecityOctober 11, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week 3D Mapping Reveals Network-Specific Amyloid Progression and Subcortical Susceptibility in Mice Canter, G., R.; et al. | October 10, 2019 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative dementia with no cure. Prominent hypotheses suggest accumulation…sciencecityOctober 10, 2019 Read More
Featured Awards McLean Hospital Receives Federal Funding to Help Tackle National Opioid Crisis McLean Hospital | October 10, 2019 As part of its efforts to reverse the opioid crisis that continues to grip the nation, the…sciencecityOctober 10, 2019 Read More
Interesting Articles FDA Boosts Rare Disease Research with $15 Million in Grants BioSpace | October 10, 2019 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded $15 million in grants to fund 12 new clinical trials over…sciencecityOctober 10, 2019 Read More
Local News Long Live the Worm Northeastern University | October 10, 2019 Scientists have discovered how to make a certain kind of worm live ten times as…sciencecityOctober 10, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week International Meta-Analysis of PTSD Genome-Wideassociation Studies Identifies Sex- and Ancestry-Specific Genetic Risk Loci Nievergelt, C., M.; et al. | October 10, 2019 The risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following trauma is heritable, but robustcommon variants have…sciencecityOctober 10, 2019 Read More
Local News Flagship Pioneering rolls out another startup, Cygnal, with $65M in backing Boston Business Journal | October 9, 2019 Another company has rolled down Flagship Pioneering’s conveyor belt: Cygnal Therapeutics, which hopes to stop…sciencecityOctober 9, 2019 Read More
Interesting Articles CTE Risk More Than Doubles After Just Three Years of Playing Football BU School of Medicine | October 9, 2019 For every year of absorbing the pounding and repeated head collisions that comes with playing…sciencecityOctober 9, 2019 Read More
Local News How to Improve Therapies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Broad Institute | October 9, 2019 About three million people in the United States suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and…sciencecityOctober 9, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Mouse Embryo Geometry Drives Formation of Robust Signaling Gradients through Receptor Localization Zhang, Z; et al. | October 9, 2019 Morphogen signals are essential for cell fate specification during embryogenesis. Some receptors that sense these…sciencecityOctober 9, 2019 Read More