Local News New Molecular Label Could Lead to Simpler, Faster Tuberculosis Tests MIT News | May 15, 2025 Tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each…karnottMay 15, 2025 Read More
Local News Biologists Identify Targets for New Pancreatic Cancer Treatments MIT News | May 15, 2025 Researchers from MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered that a class of peptides expressed…sciencecityMay 15, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Differential Aortic Aneurysm Formation Provoked by Chemogenetic Oxidative Stress Das, A., et al. | May 15, 2025 Aortic aneurysms are potentially fatal focal enlargements of the aortic lumen; the disease burden is…karnottMay 15, 2025 Read More
Awards Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton Is BU’s Innovator of the Year The Brink | May 14, 2025 Darrell Kotton and his team imagine a future where they can use a patient’s own…karnottMay 14, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week The Bone Marrow Niche from the Inside Out: How Megakaryocytes are Shaped by and Shape Hematopoiesis Stone, A. P., et al. | October 6, 2021 Megakaryocytes (MKs), the largest of the hematopoietic cells, are responsible for producing platelets by extending…pthomsonOctober 6, 2021 Read More
Publications of the Week Quantitative Proteomics Reveals the Selectivity of Ubiquitin-Binding Autophagy Receptors in the Turnover of Damaged Lysosomes by Lysophagy Eapen, V. V., et al. | October 1, 2021 Removal of damaged organelles via the process of selective autophagy constitutes a major form of…pthomsonOctober 1, 2021 Read More
Publications of the Week A Novel Protective Role for Matrix Metalloproteinase-8 in the Pulmonary Vasculature Dieffenbach, P. B., et al. | September 29, 2021 Mechanical signaling through cell-matrix interactions plays a major role in progressive vascular remodeling in pulmonary…pthomsonSeptember 29, 2021 Read More
Publications of the Week The Role of IL-6 in Hyperlipidemia Induced Accelerated Rejection Williams, L., et al. | September 24, 2021 Hyperlipidemia induces accelerated rejection of cardiac allografts and resistance to tolerance induction using costimulatory molecule…pthomsonSeptember 24, 2021 Read More
Local News Q&A: Single-Cell and Spatial Proteomics Reveal Proteins’ Nuanced Roles in Health and Disease Broad Institute | September 11, 2024 When Steve Carr, senior director of the Proteomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT…karnottSeptember 11, 2024 Read More
Local News Whitehead Institute Researchers Uncover a New Clue Toward Understanding the Molecular Basis of Parkinson’s Disease Whitehead Institute | September 10, 2024 Dopamine is more than the “rush molecule”. This chemical messenger, produced by neurons in the…karnottSeptember 10, 2024 Read More
Local News Immunotherapy for Children with Primary Liver Carcinomas: Research Offers New Hope Boston Children’s Hospital | September 9, 2024 Pediatric hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and fibrolamellar carcinoma are rare, aggressive forms of liver cancer that…karnottSeptember 9, 2024 Read More
Local News #WhyIScience Q&A: A Systems Biologist Develops Computational Tools to Bring Scale to Cell Experiments Broad Institute | September 9, 2024 At first, Yue Qin thought she wanted to become a doctor. She’d always been interested…karnottSeptember 9, 2024 Read More
Local News Why Do We Get Allergies? Mass General Brigham Scientist Explains the Surprising Science Behind the Itch Bench Press | July 30, 2025 Roughly one in five people in the United States experiences some form of allergy, making…karnottJuly 30, 2025 Read More
Local News Whitehead Institute Podcast Series Whitehead Institute | July 29, 2025 The podcast of Whitehead Institute, unwinding the science and the people behind some of the…karnottJuly 29, 2025 Read More
Awards PhD Student Claire Shamber Awarded Prestigious NSF Grant to Advance Metabolic Research UMass Chan Medical School | July 29, 2025 PhD student Claire Shamber has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to…karnottJuly 29, 2025 Read More