Publications of the Week Lysine Vitcylation Is a Vitamin C-Derived Protein Modification That Enhances STAT1-Mediated Immune Response He, X., et al. | April 15, 2025 Vitamin C (vitC) is essential for health and shows promise in treating diseases like cancer,…karnottApril 15, 2025 Read More
Local News Scientists Have Developed a Way To Scale Up Spatial Genomics and Lower Costs Broad Institute | April 14, 2025 Spatial transcriptomics technologies opened the door for new kinds of biological measurements, allowing scientists to…karnottApril 14, 2025 Read More
Awards Harvard Medical School Researcher Wins 2025 Breakthrough Prize for Work on GLP-1 Harvard Medical School | April 14, 2025 The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences has been awarded to five scientists for the…karnottApril 14, 2025 Read More
Local News Engineers Develop a Way To Mass Manufacture Nanoparticles That Deliver Cancer Drugs Directly to Tumors MIT News | April 14, 2025 Polymer-coated nanoparticles loaded with therapeutic drugs show significant promise for cancer treatment, including ovarian cancer.…karnottApril 14, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Facultative Protein Selenation Regulates Redox Sensitivity, Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis, and Obesity Jedrychowski, M.P., et al. | May 18, 2020 Oxidation of cysteines by reactive oxygen species (ROS) initiates thermogenesis in brown and beige adipose…eabramovichMay 18, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Increased Mitochondrial Calcium Levels Associated with Neuronal Death in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease Calvo-Rodriguez, M., et al. | May 14, 2020 This work addresses the toxic effects of the protein amyloid on the mitochondrial calcium homeostasis…eabramovichMay 14, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Proteomic and Biological Profiling of Extracellular Vesicles from Alzheimer’s Disease Human Brain Tissues Muraoka, S., et al. | May 12, 2020 This publication is the first comprehensive quantitative proteomics study of extracellular vesicles (EV) isolated from…eabramovichMay 12, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Factors Promoting Nuclear Envelope Assembly Independent of the Canonical ESCRT Pathway Lee, I., et al. | May 7, 2020 The nuclear envelope (NE) undergoes dynamic remodeling to maintain NE integrity, a process involving the…eabramovichMay 7, 2020 Read More
Local News Meet a Whitehead Postdoc: Jordana Bloom Whitehead Institute | May 14, 2024 Jordana Bloom is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Member David Page’s lab studying how hormonal…karnottMay 14, 2024 Read More
Local News Research Spotlight: How Inflammation Damages Synapses in an Experimental Model of Multiple Sclerosis Massachusetts General Hospital | May 14, 2024 The most obvious symptoms in many people with the inflammatory neurologic condition multiple sclerosis (MS)…karnottMay 14, 2024 Read More
Local News Science for Living: Gut Microbiome Offers Clues to Chronic Disease UMass Chan Medical School | May 13, 2024 The way to a person’s health may be through their stomach, to paraphrase an old…karnottMay 13, 2024 Read More
Local News Mice Don’t Menstruate: Reimagining Women’s Health Using Organ Chips with Dr. Donald Ingber Wyss Institute | May 10, 2024 In this episode, host Sharon Kedar, Co-Founder of Northpond Ventures, is joined by Dr. Donald…karnottMay 10, 2024 Read More
Awards Chemistry Alum Reuben Saunders Wins Hertz Thesis Prize for Mapping Gene Function in Living Tissues MIT Chemistry | July 23, 2025 Reuben Saunders (SB ’16), was awarded the 2024 Hertz Thesis Prize by the Hertz Foundation…karnottJuly 23, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Germline Genetic Variation Impacts Clonal Hematopoiesis Landscape and Progression to Malignancy Liu, J., et al. | July 23, 2025 With age, clonal expansions occur pervasively across normal tissues yet only in rare instances lead…karnottJuly 23, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week CellLENS Enables Cross-Domain Information Fusion for Enhanced Cell Population Delineation in Single-Cell Spatial Omics Data Zhu, B., et al. | July 22, 2025 Delineating cell populations is crucial for understanding immune function in health and disease. Spatial omics…karnottJuly 22, 2025 Read More