Local News Does the COVID Vaccine Affect Menstruation? New Bu Study Finds NoThe Brink | June 30, 2023Do COVID vaccines affect the menstrual cycle? Soon after shots first started getting into arms,…pthomsonJune 30, 2023 Read More
Local News When It Comes to Immunity, You Are What You EatHarvard Medical School | June 30, 2023The notion that diet and health are inextricably linked is hardly novel. For millennia, people…pthomsonJune 30, 2023 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology Awarded to Dr. Marvin Caruthers for Developing Technology That Efficiently Synthesizes DNABroad Institute | June 30, 2023Dr. Marvin H. Caruthers of the University of Colorado, Boulder, has won the inaugural Richard…pthomsonJune 30, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Defining Diurnal Fluctuations in Mouse Choroid Plexus and CSF at High Molecular, Spatial, and Temporal ResolutionFame, R.M., et al. | June 30, 2023Transmission and secretion of signals via the choroid plexus (ChP) brain barrier can modulate brain…pthomsonJune 30, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Domain-specific Quantification of Prion Protein in Cerebrospinal Fluid by Targeted Mass SpectrometryMinikel, E., V., et al | December 20, 2019Therapies currently in preclinical development for prion disease seek to lower prion protein (PrP) expression…sciencecityDecember 20, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week A Strategic Approach for Fluorescence Imaging of Membrane Proteins in a Native-like EnvironmentSwiecicki, J., M., et al. | December 20, 2019Biological membranes are complex barriers in which membrane proteins and thousands of lipidic species participate…sciencecityDecember 20, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Toward a Common Coordinate Framework for the Human BodyRood, E., J., et al. | December 19, 2019Understanding the genetic and molecular drivers of phenotypic heterogeneity across individuals is central to biology.…sciencecityDecember 19, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Activity-by-Contact Model of Enhancer–Promoter Regulation from Thousands of CRISPR PerturbationsFulco, P., C., et al. | December 11, 2019Enhancer elements in the human genome control how genes are expressed in specific cell types…sciencecityDecember 11, 2019 Read More
Local News How a Leukemia Hijacks the Genes Needed by Blood Stem CellsBoston Children's Hospital | January 5, 2023As a child, Lynn Aureli didn’t know that a particular genetic change contributed to her acute…pthomsonJanuary 5, 2023 Read More
Local News DNA Nanostructures Grow Up to Become Micron-Scale MegastructuresWyss Institute | January 5, 2023DNA nanostructures assembled from shorter DNA sequences as building blocks have long sparked the imagination…pthomsonJanuary 5, 2023 Read More
Local News Self-Assembling Proteins Can Store Cellular “Memories”McGovern Institute | January 5, 2023As cells perform their everyday functions, they turn on a variety of genes and cellular…pthomsonJanuary 5, 2023 Read More
Local News Dulac and Zhuang Labs Create “Cell Atlas” of Aging in the Mouse BrainHarvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | January 4, 2023Research led by Harvard Junior Fellow William Allen, a joint postdoctoral fellow in Catherine Dulac’s and Xiaowei Zhuang’s Labs, has…pthomsonJanuary 4, 2023 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Five MIT Researchers in Teams Shortlisted for Cancer Grand Challenges FundingKoch Institute | September 14, 2023Koch Institute faculty members Michael Birnbaum, Ömer Yilmaz, Brandon DeKosky and Regina Barzilay, along with…pthomsonSeptember 14, 2023 Read More
Local News Dana-Farber Study Finds Up-Front Chemotherapy Boost Could Benefit Patients with Non-small Cell Lung CancerDana-Farber Cancer Institute | September 12, 2023In a phase 3 global clinical trial called FLAURA2 led by researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer…sciencecitySeptember 12, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Airway Stem Cell Reconstitution by the Transplantation of Primary or Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Basal CellsMa, L., et al. | September 11, 2023Life-long reconstitution of a tissue’s resident stem cell compartment with engrafted cells has the potential…sciencecitySeptember 11, 2023 Read More