Publications of the Week Am80-Lipid Nanoparticles Serve as an Enteric Mucosal Adjuvant Following Parenteral Immunization with Inactivated Polio Vaccine Eshaghi, B., et al. | June 11, 2026 Enteric pathogens are a major contributor to the global disease burden, necessitating vaccines capable of…karnottJune 11, 2026 Read More
Local News Beyond Average-Based Medicine: HIE as a Blueprint for Data-Informed Care Boston Children’s Hospital | June 11, 2026 Historically, outcome prediction in medicine has followed a familiar formula: run a clinical trial, publish…karnottJune 11, 2026 Read More
Local News Dr. David Chou on Keeping People Safe From Radiation on Earth and Beyond Wyss Institute | June 10, 2026 David Chou’s work is literally out of this world! In addition to identifying radiation countermeasures…karnottJune 10, 2026 Read More
Local News Ultrasound-Based Pacemaker Noninvasively Steadies the Heart MIT News | June 10, 2026 MIT engineers have developed a noninvasive pacemaker that stimulates the heart using ultrasound. The design…karnottJune 10, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week A Stochastic RNA Editing Process Targets a Select Number of Sites in Individual Drosophila Glutamatergic Motoneurons Crane, A., et al. | December 1, 2025 RNA editing is a post-transcriptional source of protein diversity and occurs across the animal kingdom.…karnottDecember 1, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Intracellular Competition Shapes Plasmid Population Dynamics Rossine, F., et al. | November 28, 2025 From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization…karnottNovember 28, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week A Transcriptomic Atlas of Astrocyte Heterogeneity Across Space and Time in Mouse and Marmoset Schroeder, M., et al. | November 27, 2025 How astrocyte regionalization unfolds over development is not fully understood. We used single-nucleus RNA sequencing…karnottNovember 27, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Prime Editing-Installed Suppressor tRNAs for Disease-Agnostic Genome Editing Pierce, S., et al. | November 21, 2025 Precise genome-editing technologies such as base editing1,2 and prime editing3 can correct most pathogenic gene…karnottNovember 21, 2025 Read More
Local News Hearing Restoration From Gene Therapy for Inherited Deafness Lasts Years, New Trial Results Show Harvard Medical School | May 4, 2026 An experimental gene therapy for a rare form of genetic deafness has successfully restored hearing…karnottMay 4, 2026 Read More
Local News Gene Therapy for Hearing Loss: Tag-Teaming From the Lab to the Clinic Boston Children's Hospital | May 4, 2026 Two-year-old Miles is one of the first patients with hereditary hearing loss to receive gene…karnottMay 4, 2026 Read More
Local News Harnessing the Power of AI to Fight Lyme Disease Tufts Now | May 1, 2026 Tufts University researchers are using AI and machine learning to more quickly identify potential narrow-spectrum…karnottMay 1, 2026 Read More
Local News Mapping ‘Neighborhoods’ in Aggressive Childhood Brain Tumors Boston Children’s Hospital | May 1, 2026 The third-most common kind of childhood brain tumor, supratentorial ependymoma, is an aggressive cancer that…karnottMay 1, 2026 Read More
Interesting Articles Drug Price Controls Included in $43.1B Budget Accord Boston Business Journal | July 23, 2019 Three weeks after the start of the new fiscal year, Democratic leaders finalized a fiscal…sciencecityJuly 23, 2019 Read More
Interesting Articles US Senators Call for International Guidelines for Germline Editing TheScientist | July 18, 2019 In the wake of reports of CRISPRed babies born in China, a bipartisan resolution “opposes…sciencecityJuly 18, 2019 Read More
Awards Brittany Walsh Receives 2025 FAS Dean’s Distinction Award Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | June 11, 2025 Brittany Walsh, Research Assistant for the Bellono Lab, has been named a 2025 recipient of…karnottJune 11, 2025 Read More
Awards Eight With MIT Ties Win 2025 Hertz Foundation Fellowships MIT News | June 5, 2025 The Hertz Foundation announced that it has awarded fellowships to eight MIT affiliates. The prestigious…karnottJune 5, 2025 Read More
Awards Joshua Sanes Elected Fellow of the British Royal Society Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | May 30, 2025 Joshua Sanes, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has been named…karnottMay 30, 2025 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards 2025 Celebration of Science Poster of Distinction Winners: Meet Jixian Shen Mass General Brigham Bench Press | May 28, 2025 In this Q&A, you’ll meet Jiaxian Shen, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow studying the role of the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) under…sciencecityMay 28, 2025 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Recognizing Excellence in Mentorship: 2025 MCB Mentorship Award Recipients Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | May 22, 2025 The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) at Harvard has announced the recipients of…sciencecityMay 22, 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
Awards Biology Major Wins Prestigious Goldwater Prize UMass Boston | May 13, 2025 Kurt Jancsy, a junior majoring in biology and cognitive science at UMass Boston, has been…karnottMay 13, 2025 Read More
Awards Five from Harvard Medical School Elected to National Academy of Sciences Harvard Medical School | May 12, 2025 Five Harvard Medical School researchers are among the 150 newly elected members of the National…karnottMay 12, 2025 Read More
Awards Dr. Carolyn Elya Receives Prestigious Smith Family Foundation Award for Biomedical Research Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | May 7, 2025 MCB Assistant Professor Carolyn Elya has been named a 2025 recipient of the Smith Family…karnottMay 7, 2025 Read More
Awards Dr. Ron Raines Wins AstraZeneca Protein and Peptide Science Award MIT Chemistry | May 6, 2025 Ronald T. Raines, the Roger and Georges Firmenich Professor of Natural Products Chemistry, has been…karnottMay 6, 2025 Read More
Local News How Tufts Researchers Are Tackling Chronic Lyme Disease Tufts Now | June 22, 2026 If someone is bitten by a tick and develops Lyme disease, they may have flu-like…karnottJune 22, 2026 Read More
Uncategorized PhD Candidate Rebekka Anderson Receives Fellowship Award to Study Calcium Waves in C. elegans, Links to Gout UMass Chan Medical School | June 22, 2026 Rebekka Anderson, a PhD candidate in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass…karnottJune 22, 2026 Read More
Local News Fluorescent Nanosensor Enables Rapid, First-Of-Its-Kind Detection of Key Gut Health Biomarker MIT News | June 19, 2026 An international team of researchers has developed a novel fluorescent nanosensor powered by carbon nanotubes…karnottJune 19, 2026 Read More