AwardsFeatured Awards Whitehead Institute Researchers Receive an HHMI Gilliam FellowshipWhitehead Institute | August 3, 2023Doctoral researcher Anaïs Tsai and Whitehead Institute director Ruth Lehmann are recipients of a 2023…pthomsonAugust 3, 2023 Read More
Local News Kiessling Paper Published in Science AdvancesMIT Chemistry | August 3, 2023The paper, “Lectin-Seq: A method to profile lectin-microbe interactions in native communities", was published on…pthomsonAugust 3, 2023 Read More
Local News Making Sense of Cell FateMIT News | August 2, 2023Despite the proliferation of novel therapies such as immunotherapy or targeted therapies, radiation and chemotherapy…pthomsonAugust 2, 2023 Read More
Local News Massachusetts General Hospital Launches First-of-its-Kind Center for Clinical Transplant ToleranceMassachusetts General Hospital | August 1, 2023Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health system, officially…pthomsonAugust 1, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Sex Differences in Gene Expression and Regulatory Networks across 29 Human TissuesLopes-Ramos, C.M., et al. | July 7, 2020The authors modeled the network of factors that control gene expression and observed that these…eabramovichJuly 7, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Tau Molecular Diversity Contributes to Clinical Heterogeneity in Alzheimer’s DiseaseDujardin, S., et al. | July 3, 2020Alzheimer’s disease (AD) causes unrelenting, progressive cognitive impairments, but its course is heterogeneous, with a…eabramovichJuly 3, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week The Role of Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseaseThayer, T.E., et al. | July 2, 2020Despite the growing burden and high morbidity and mortality associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease…eabramovichJuly 2, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Drug GRADE: An Integrated Analysis of Population Growth and Cell Death Reveals Drug-Specific and Cancer Subtype-Specific Response ProfilesSchwartz, H.R., et al. | June 29, 2020The typical measurement for evaluating drugs doesn’t distinguish between responses that are due to inhibition…eabramovichJune 29, 2020 Read More
Local News New Polymers Could Enable Better Wearable DevicesMIT News | February 10, 2023Certain electronics that integrate with the human body — a smartwatch that samples your sweat,…pthomsonFebruary 10, 2023 Read More
Local News Overturning a Century of Misunderstanding MicrobesSlice of MIT | February 9, 2023The fingers of Jared Kehe PhD ’20 cascade across a white electric piano in his…pthomsonFebruary 9, 2023 Read More
Local News Garuda Therapeutics Secures $62 Million Series B Financing to Advance Off-the-Shelf Blood Stem Cell Technology PlatformBusinessWire | February 8, 2023Garuda Therapeutics (Garuda), a company creating off-the-shelf, durable blood stem cell-based cellular therapies, today announced a…pthomsonFebruary 8, 2023 Read More
Local News Dana-Farber Research Supports FDA Approval of New Therapy for Metastatic Breast CancerDana-Farber Cancer Institute | February 7, 2023Sacituzumab govitecan, a novel antibody drug-conjugate therapy has been granted accelerated approved by the U.S.…pthomsonFebruary 7, 2023 Read More
Local News Cancer Immunotherapy Candidate Provokes Powerful Dual Response in Cancer and Immune CellsBroad Institute | October 5, 2023Cancer immunotherapy drugs called PD-1 inhibitors are widely used to stimulate the immune system to…sciencecityOctober 5, 2023 Read More
Awards Golden Goose Awarded for “Impossible” Success of Nanopore DNA SequencingHarvard University | October 5, 2023Dr. Daniel Branton, Harvard’s Higgins Professor of Biology, Emeritus, and his collaborators Dr. David Deamer…sciencecityOctober 5, 2023 Read More
Local News Human Brain Seems Impossible to Map. What If We Started with Mice?The Harvard Gazette | October 4, 2023The human brain is a tangled highway of wires emanating from nearly 100 billion neurons,…sciencecityOctober 4, 2023 Read More