Local News Looking to Retain Most Potent Regenerative Stem CellsMassachusetts General Hospital | December 13, 2022New research offers insights that someday may help scientists create the kind of stem cells…pthomsonDecember 13, 2022 Read More
Local News Failure of Tuberculosis Treatment Linked to Bacterial ResilienceHarvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health | December 12, 2022Researchers have discovered a new form of altered drug susceptibility—dubbed antibiotic resilience—that enables Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) to…pthomsonDecember 12, 2022 Read More
Local News PhD Candidate Seeks to Develop First Clinically Approved Antifungal VaccineUMass Chan Medical School | December 12, 2022Maureen Hester, a PhD candidate in the immunology and microbiology program of the Morningside Graduate School of…pthomsonDecember 12, 2022 Read More
Local News Scientists Map Genetic Evolution of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia to Richter’s SyndromeDana=Farber Cancer Institute | December 12, 2022Every year, up to 1% of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a slow-growing blood…pthomsonDecember 12, 2022 Read More
Local News A Better Antibiotic for Tuberculosis TreatmentHarvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health | May 17, 2022Over the past few years of his PhD research, Harim Won has been laying the…pthomsonMay 17, 2022 Read More
Local News Novel Biomaterial Prevents Rejection of Transplants for Type 1 DiabetesMassachusetts General Hospital | May 16, 2022In type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune response attacks the pancreas’s insulin-producing beta cells, leading to…pthomsonMay 16, 2022 Read More
Local News Scents of Belonging: An Olfactory-Oxytocin Pathway for the Social Regulation of Appetite and AvoidanceHarvard University School of Molecular and Cellular Biology | May 16, 2022In a project jointly led by the Kunes and Engert laboratories, co-first authors Caroline Wee, Erin Song, and Maxim Nikitchenko used the…pthomsonMay 16, 2022 Read More
Local News Massive Single-Cell Atlas Across Human Tissues Highlights Cell Types Where Disease Genes Are ActiveBroad Institute | May 16, 2022Genetic studies have revealed many genes linked to both common and rare disease, but to…pthomsonMay 16, 2022 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Athma Pai Awarded National Science Foundation CAREER GrantUMass Chan Medical School | April 12, 2023Athma A. Pai, PhD, assistant professor of RNA therapeutics, was awarded a nearly $1 million…pthomsonApril 12, 2023 Read More
Local News Balance Between Proteins Keeps Sperm Swimming SwiftlyWhitehead Institute | April 11, 2023Sperm must swim swiftly to an egg in order to fertilize it, and so they…pthomsonApril 11, 2023 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards William Hahn Is a 2023 Award of Excellence Honoree by Hope FundsDana-Farber Cancer Institute | April 11, 2023William Hahn, MD, PhD, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is one…pthomsonApril 11, 2023 Read More