Local News Sarah Sandler on Sailing Towards a New Solution for Drug Discovery Wyss Institute | June 25, 2026 In sailing and in science, it’s important to communicate and stay calm in stressful situations,…karnottJune 25, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Probing the Limits of Genetic Recoding Using Multi-Omics-Guided Evolution Nyerges, A., et al. | June 25, 2026 Engineering the genetic code—by reassigning multiple of the 64 natural codons—enables making organisms resistant to…karnottJune 25, 2026 Read More
Local News Research Spotlight: Building Precision Medicine That Works for Women Tufts Medicine | June 24, 2026 Co-authored with Tufts Medical Center postdoctoral researcher Hamad Al Ibrahim, MD, PhD, of Qatar University,…karnottJune 24, 2026 Read More
Awards PhD Candidate Awarded NSF Fellowship to Further Research That Could Revolutionize Organ Transplants UMass Chan Medical School | June 24, 2026 Jonathan Valeros, a PhD candidate in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass…karnottJune 24, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Functional Dissection of Complex Trait Variants at Single-Nucleotide Resolution Siraj, L., et al. | March 2, 2026 Identifying the causal variants and mechanisms that drive complex traits and diseases remains a core…karnottMarch 2, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week A Human Electrophysiological Signature of Fragile X Pathophysiology Is Shared in V1 of FMR1-/Y Mice Kornfeld-Sylla, S., et al. | February 26, 2026 Predicting clinical therapeutic outcomes from animal studies using conserved electrophysiological phenotypes could facilitate developing treatments…karnottFebruary 26, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week In Vivo Detection of Immune Responses via Cytokine Activity Labeling Lu, G., et al. | February 24, 2026 While much is known about the identity and regulation of cytokine-producing cells, the cell types…karnottFebruary 24, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Directed Differentiation of Functional Corticospinal-Like Neurons from Endogenous SOX6+/NG2+ Cortical Progenitors Ozkan, A., et al. | February 20, 2026 Corticospinal neurons (CSN) centrally degenerate in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), along with spinal motor neurons,…karnottFebruary 20, 2026 Read More
Local News A New Sensor Could Enable Earlier Detection of Bladder Cancer MIT News | June 3, 2026 Every year, about 85,000 Americans are diagnosed with bladder cancer. While treatment is often successful,…karnottJune 3, 2026 Read More
Local News Dr. Myriam Heiman Named the Director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The Picower Institute | June 2, 2026 Myriam Heiman, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Neuroscience, will become the director of…karnottJune 2, 2026 Read More
Local News The Rules Neurons Follow to Make Sense of What We See MIT News | June 2, 2026 Even in the primary visual cortex, a brain region named for its specialized role in…karnottJune 2, 2026 Read More
Local News HSCI Announces New Co-Director Harvard Stem Cell Institute | May 29, 2026 Lee Rubin, Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and leading scholar of neurodegenerative disease,…karnottMay 29, 2026 Read More
Interesting Articles COVID-19 Testing Gets Boost from NIH Funding Initiative Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | May 8, 2020 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hoping to push COVID-19 testing to the next…eabramovichMay 8, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles Untapped Potential: More US Labs Could Be Providing Tests for Coronavirus Nature News | April 24, 2020 A survey of more than 4,000 researchers in the United States suggests that better coordination at an…eabramovichApril 24, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles Northeastern Models Are Helping Shape US COVID-19 Policy News@Northeastern | April 2, 2020 Northeastern researchers are part of the network of teams creating models to advise the Trump…sciencecityApril 2, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles Gene Sleuths Are Tracking the Coronavirus Outbreak as It Happens MIT Technology Review | March 6, 2020 In the unprecedented outbreak of a new coronavirus sweeping the world, the germ’s genetic material…sciencecityMarch 6, 2020 Read More
Awards Scientific Director Dr. Facundo Batista Elected to the National Academy of Medicine Ragon Institute | November 3, 2025 The Ragon Institute is proud to share that Scientific Director Facundo Batista, PhD, has been…karnottNovember 3, 2025 Read More
Awards Fernando Martinez Leading Nationwide DOD Clinical Study Targeting Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis UMass Chan Medical School | October 29, 2025 A UMass Chan Medical School pulmonology and biomedical research expert is helping lead a nationwide…karnottOctober 29, 2025 Read More
Awards In Fruit Fly Eyes, UMass Boston Researcher Sees Potential Medical Discoveries UMass Boston | October 28, 2025 Jens Rister, an associate professor in UMass Boston’s biology department, has just been awarded more…karnottOctober 28, 2025 Read More
Awards Anastasiia Sukalskaia Awarded Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | October 27, 2025 Postdoctoral fellow Anastasiia Sukalskaia has received a prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship,…karnottOctober 27, 2025 Read More
Awards UMass Chan Researcher Awarded NIH Grant To Advance Precision Medicine for Opioid Use Disorder and Mentor Emerging Scientists UMass Chan Medical School | October 27, 2025 A new National Institutes of Health award will help a UMass Chan Medical School physician-scientist…karnottOctober 27, 2025 Read More
Awards Charles Park Named 2025 STAT Wunderkind Wyss Institute | October 24, 2025 The Wyss Institute is proud to announce that Charles Park, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in…karnottOctober 24, 2025 Read More
Awards Jessica Spinelli, Emma Watson Named To Distinguished HHMI Scholars Program UMass Chan Medical School | October 24, 2025 Two UMass Chan Medical School researchers have been named to the renowned Howard Hughes Medical…karnottOctober 24, 2025 Read More
Awards BU Biomedical Engineer Christopher Chen Elected to National Academy of Medicine The Brink | October 23, 2025 Boston University biomedical engineer Christopher Chen has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.…karnottOctober 23, 2025 Read More
Awards NIH Honors Two BU Researchers for Exceptionally Creative, High-Impact Science The Brink | October 22, 2025 Two Boston University researchers have received prestigious awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)…karnottOctober 22, 2025 Read More
Awards Hannah McCalmon Awarded NIH F31 Fellowship to Study How the Brain Remembers Smells Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | October 22, 2025 Fourth-year MCO PhD student Hannah McCalmon of the Venkatesh Murthy Lab in MCB has been…karnottOctober 22, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Recurrent ZC3H18 Mutations Stabilize Oncogenic Endogenous Retroviral RNA Tanu, T., et al. | July 2, 2026 Endogenous retroviral (ERV) RNA is highly expressed in cancer, suggesting a selective advantage. We identify…karnottJuly 2, 2026 Read More
Awards MCB Postdoctoral Researchers Matthew Capek and Ruoyu Chen Awarded Jane Coffin Childs Fellowships Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | July 1, 2026 Two MCB postdoctoral researchers, Matthew Capek and Ruoyu (Roy) Chen, have been awarded prestigious fellowships…karnottJuly 1, 2026 Read More
Local News Science for Living: How Acupuncture Is Earning Its Place in Modern Medicine UMass Chan Medical School | July 1, 2026 A growing body of scientific evidence is helping explain how the centuries-old practice of acupuncture…karnottJuly 1, 2026 Read More