Local News Harvard Hero Dominic Mao Turns Big Ideas Into Opportunities for Students Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | June 12, 2026 When Harvard announced its 2026 Harvard Heroes, one familiar name stood out to members of…karnottJune 12, 2026 Read More
Local News Researchers Publish First Complete Connectome of Fruit Fly Brain and ‘Spinal Cord’ Harvard Medical School | June 12, 2026 In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School…karnottJune 12, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Am80-Lipid Nanoparticles Serve as an Enteric Mucosal Adjuvant Following Parenteral Immunization with Inactivated Polio Vaccine Eshaghi, B., et al. | June 11, 2026 Enteric pathogens are a major contributor to the global disease burden, necessitating vaccines capable of…karnottJune 11, 2026 Read More
Local News Beyond Average-Based Medicine: HIE as a Blueprint for Data-Informed Care Boston Children’s Hospital | June 11, 2026 Historically, outcome prediction in medicine has followed a familiar formula: run a clinical trial, publish…karnottJune 11, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Directed Evolution-Based Discovery of Ligands for In Vivo Restimulation of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells Grzywa, T., et al. | September 4, 2025 Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy targeting CD19 elicits remarkable clinical efficacy in B…karnottSeptember 4, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Plasma Exosomes from Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Drive Breast Cancer Aggression in Patient-Derived Organoids Ennis, C., et al. | September 3, 2025 Women with obesity-driven type 2 diabetes (T2D) face worse breast cancer outcomes, yet metabolic status…karnottSeptember 3, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week DNA Mutagenesis Driven by Transcription Factor Competition with Mismatch Repair Zhu, W., et al. | September 1, 2025 Despite the remarkable fidelity of eukaryotic DNA replication, nucleotide misincorporation errors occur in every replication…karnottSeptember 1, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Targeting G1–S-Checkpoint-Compromised Cancers with Cyclin A/B RxL Inhibitors Singh, S., et al. | August 28, 2025 Small-cell lung cancers (SCLCs) contain near-universal loss-of-function mutations in RB1 and TP53, compromising the G1–S…karnottAugust 28, 2025 Read More
Local News MIT Study Reveals a New Role for Cell Membranes MIT News | April 21, 2026 Cells are enveloped by a lipid membrane that gives them structure and provides a barrier…karnottApril 21, 2026 Read More
Local News New Test Tells Doctors Whether Blood Thinners Are Actually Working Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | April 20, 2026 Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have developed a new laboratory test that…karnottApril 20, 2026 Read More
Local News Base Editing Repairs Mutation and Liver Function in Mouse Model of Zellweger Spectrum Disorder Broad Institute | April 17, 2026 In 2025, baby KJ Muldoon became the first person to receive a personalized gene editing…karnottApril 17, 2026 Read More
Local News Wyss Institute Technologies Enable Breakthrough in Astronaut Health Research Aboard NASA’s Artemis II Mission Wyss Institute | April 17, 2026 Launched on April 1, 2026, Artemis II is a historic, approximately 10-day lunar flyby mission…karnottApril 17, 2026 Read More
Awards Harvard Seniors with Concentrations in Neuroscience Named Rhodes Scholars Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | December 9, 2024 Two Harvard seniors, Aneesh Muppidi ’25 and Ayush Noori ‘25, have been named Rhodes Scholars…karnottDecember 9, 2024 Read More
Awards Introducing the 2024-2025 Convergence Scholars Koch Institute | December 4, 2024 The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT is pleased to announce the 2024-2025…karnottDecember 4, 2024 Read More
Awards Drs. Florian Douam and Jessica Fetterman Receive Smith Family Foundation’s Odyssey Award Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | December 3, 2024 Two junior faculty members have been awarded Smith Family Foundation’s Odyssey Awards. Florian Douam, PhD,…karnottDecember 3, 2024 Read More
Awards Wyss Institute’s iNodes Team Receives ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health Award to Advance the First Implantable Immune Organs to Treat Ovarian Cancer Wyss Institute | November 27, 2024 Ovarian cancer is more deadly than any other type of female reproductive organ cancer. It…karnottNovember 27, 2024 Read More
Awards Four from MIT Named 2025 Rhodes Scholars McGovern Institute | November 26, 2024 Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo have been selected as 2025…karnottNovember 26, 2024 Read More
Awards Whitehead Institute Member Sebastian Lourido Receives the 2024 William Trager Award Whitehead Institute | November 22, 2024 The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) selected Whitehead Institute Member Sebastian Lourido…karnottNovember 22, 2024 Read More
Awards Mass General Cancer Center Announces 2024 Recipients of Krantz Awards for Cancer Research Massachusetts General Hospital | November 20, 2024 The Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research at the Mass General Cancer Center today announced…karnottNovember 20, 2024 Read More
Awards Can We Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias? The Brink | November 19, 2024 Recent new drugs for treating Alzheimer’s disease have been heralded as breakthroughs—with the potential to…karnottNovember 19, 2024 Read More
Awards 2024 Kilachand Fund Awards Boost Projects Building Antivirus Platform, Improving Brain Imaging, and Fighting Antibiotic Resistance The Brink | November 19, 2024 Messenger RNA (or mRNA) vaccines showed their potential as critical virus response tools during the…karnottNovember 19, 2024 Read More
Awards David Flynn Honored by AAMC Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | November 18, 2024 David Flynn, MS, associate professor in the department of medical sciences & education, has been…karnottNovember 18, 2024 Read More
Awards Dana-Farber Researcher Selected to Join the Pew Scholars Program Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | June 29, 2026 The Pew Charitable Trusts announced that Xin Gu, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is among…karnottJune 29, 2026 Read More
Awards Fred Hutch Names Eight Recipients of the Dr. Eddie Méndez Award Fred Hutch | June 26, 2026 Fred Hutch Cancer Center announced eight recipients of this year’s Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award.…karnottJune 26, 2026 Read More
Local News Meet a Whitehead Postdoc: Evan Groover Whitehead Institute | June 26, 2026 Evan Groover is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Member Mary Gehring’s lab working on understanding…karnottJune 26, 2026 Read More