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
Awards Two Dana-Farber Hematologists Receive Top Honors From the American Society of Hematology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | June 26, 2026 The American Society of Hematology is recognizing 11 distinguished hematologists with its most prestigious awards…karnottJune 26, 2026 Read More
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
Publications of the Week Human Genetics Guides the Discovery of CARD9 Inhibitors With Anti-Inflammatory Activity Rush, J., et al. | January 27, 2026 Human genetic association studies highlight key genes involved in disease pathology, yet targets identified by…karnottJanuary 27, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week In Vivo Detection of Immune Responses via Cytokine Activity Labeling Lu, G., et al. | January 23, 2026 While much is known about the identity and regulation of cytokine-producing cells, the cell types…karnottJanuary 23, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week An Expanded Registry of Candidate Cis-Regulatory Elements Moore, J., et al. | January 21, 2026 Mammalian genomes contain millions of regulatory elements that control the complex patterns of gene expression1.…karnottJanuary 21, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Intelectin-2 Is a Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Lectin Dugan, A., et al. | January 19, 2026 Mammals regulate the localization, composition, and activity of their native microbiota at colonization sites. Lectins…karnottJanuary 19, 2026 Read More
Local News Understanding and Exploiting Tuberculosis Superspreading Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | May 26, 2026 Superspreading became a familiar concept to many during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior studies examining infectious…karnottMay 26, 2026 Read More
Local News Materializing Safe, On-Demand Living Therapeutics Wyss Institute | May 26, 2026 Patient recovery from many debilitating conditions and diseases could be sped up significantly and be…karnottMay 26, 2026 Read More
Local News From Blueprint to Beating: How 3D Bioprinting Is Advancing Heart Research at Mass General Brigham Bench Press | May 25, 2026 Once the stuff of science fiction, the emerging field of 3D bioprinting has advanced rapidly,…karnottMay 25, 2026 Read More
Local News Measles, Cholera, and Mpox: BU-Based Outbreak Tracker Monitors World’s Most Dangerous Infectious Diseases The Brink | May 22, 2026 Last year alone, more than 500,000 people globally were sickened by cholera—and 6,500 died. Chikungunya,…karnottMay 22, 2026 Read More
Interesting Articles Trump Plan Would Limit Research Used to Protect Public Health Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | November 19, 2019 A new proposal from the Trump Administration would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from…sciencecityNovember 19, 2019 Read More
Interesting Articles Why NIH Is Beefing Up Its Data Sharing Rules after 16 Years Science Magazine | November 14, 2019 The U.S. National Institutes of Health last week released a draft policy that will require all investigators…sciencecityNovember 14, 2019 Read More
Interesting Articles Questioning Facebook’s Foray into Preventive Health Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | November 6, 2019 A new health care feature from Facebook called “Preventive Health” is aimed at encouraging users…sciencecityNovember 6, 2019 Read More
Interesting Articles Chip-ing Away at Health and Medicine for 25 Years: A Look Back Boston Children's Hospital | November 4, 2019 In 1994, when CHIP was formed, the dotcom boom was just dawning. iPhones and social…sciencecityNovember 4, 2019 Read More
Awards Whitehead Institute Graduate Student Jimmy Ly Receives the 2025 International Birnstiel Award Whitehead Institute | September 15, 2025 The Max Birnstiel Foundation and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) have named Whitehead…karnottSeptember 15, 2025 Read More
Awards Moura Silva Lab Student Named to 2025 HHMI Gilliam Fellows Program Ragon Institute | September 10, 2025 The Ragon Institute congratulates Anika Hutton of the Moura-Silva Lab on her selection to the…karnottSeptember 10, 2025 Read More
Awards Sabrina Samad Shoily Receives AAUW Fellowship Boston University Biology | September 8, 2025 Biology PhD student Sabrina Samad Shoily of the Garcia-Marcos Lab recently received an International Fellowship…karnottSeptember 8, 2025 Read More
Awards Rudolf Jaenisch Receives the 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize Whitehead Institute | September 5, 2025 Whitehead Institute Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch has been honored with the 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell…karnottSeptember 5, 2025 Read More
Awards Kazuki Nagashima Awarded $100K Gift from Noster to Advance Gut–Immune System Research Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | September 4, 2025 MCB is pleased to announce that MCB Assistant Professor Kazuki Nagashima has received a $100,000…karnottSeptember 4, 2025 Read More
Awards Brink Bites: Using AI to Spot Alzheimer’s; NIH Backs BU COPD Research The Brink | September 3, 2025 The Brink’s latest collection of news nuggets, short stories, and other thought-provoking snippets from the…karnottSeptember 3, 2025 Read More
Awards ACS Announces 2026 National Award Winners American Chemical Society | August 26, 2025 The following are the recipients of national awards administered by the American Chemical Society for…karnottAugust 26, 2025 Read More
Awards Gates Foundation Awards $3 Million in Grants to UMass Chan to Study Gut Health in Pregnant Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries UMass Chan Medical School | August 25, 2025 The Gates Foundation is providing funding to two labs in the Program in Microbiome Dynamics…karnottAugust 25, 2025 Read More
Awards The Wyss Institute’s 2025-2026 Validation Projects Wyss Institute | August 22, 2025 Throughout recent years, the Wyss’ Validation Project mechanism has proven to be a highly valuable…karnottAugust 22, 2025 Read More
Awards Wong Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award Ragon Institute | August 20, 2025 The Ragon Institute congratulates faculty member Harikesh Wong, PhD, Core Member at the Ragon and…karnottAugust 20, 2025 Read More
Local News Dana-Farber Investigators Report Promising Results from Phase 2 Study of Targeted Therapy for Rare Bile Duct Cancer Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | July 6, 2026 Results of the ongoing eNRGy trial, a single-arm, multicenter, global phase 2 clinical trial evaluating…karnottJuly 6, 2026 Read More
Local News UMass Chan Research Shows Exciting Step Forward in Innate Immune Stimulation and Vaccine Platform Development UMass Chan Medical School | July 6, 2026 Research by Katherine A. Fitzgerald, PhD, the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Chair III, professor…karnottJuly 6, 2026 Read More
Awards 2026 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Awarded for Gene-Editing Therapies Harvard Medical School | July 3, 2026 The 2026 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for their work…karnottJuly 3, 2026 Read More