Local News New Leader Charts Course for NeurobiologyHarvard Medical School | November 11, 2022As the leader of a busy research lab devoted to studying the sense of touch,…pthomsonNovember 11, 2022 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards NTSAD to Honor Guangping Gao for Lifetime Work on Canavan Disease, as Gene Therapy Trial Shows PromiseUMass Chan Medical School | November 11, 2022Guangping Gao, PhD, will be honored by the National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association for…pthomsonNovember 11, 2022 Read More
Publications of the Week The Landscape of mRNA NanomedicineHuang, X., et al. | November 10, 2022Messenger RNA (mRNA) is an emerging class of therapeutic agent for the prevention and treatment…pthomsonNovember 10, 2022 Read More
Local News Study Finds That Patients with Cancer and a Suppressed Immune System Are at High Risk for Severe COVID If Treated with Systemic Drug TherapiesDana-Farber Cancer Institute | November 10, 2022Patients with cancer and a weakened immune system who are treated with immunotherapies tend to…pthomsonNovember 10, 2022 Read More
Local News Douglas Melton, Noted Stem Cell Researcher, Leaves Harvard for Vertex to Create Diabetes TreatmentsSTAT News | April 6, 2022Douglas Melton, one of the leading stem cell researchers in the world, is leaving Harvard…pthomsonApril 6, 2022 Read More
Local News Neurons Are Fickle. Electric Fields Are More Reliable for Information.MIT News | April 6, 2022As the brain strives to hold information in mind, such as the list of groceries…pthomsonApril 6, 2022 Read More
Local News UMass Chan Biomedical Sciences Student Studies a Gene That Causes ALSUMass Chan Medical School | April 5, 2022Megan Fowler-Magaw has always been interested in neuroscience. Now she’s putting that passion into studying…pthomsonApril 5, 2022 Read More
Local News HIV Drug Stabilizes Disease Progression in Metastatic Colorectal CancerMassachusetts General Hospital | April 5, 2022New clinical research shows that lamivudine, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor widely used in HIV therapy,…pthomsonApril 5, 2022 Read More
Local News Normalizing Tumor Blood Vessels May Improve Immunotherapy Against Brain CancerMassachusetts General Hospital | March 16, 2023A type of immune therapy called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has revolutionized the…pthomsonMarch 16, 2023 Read More
Local News Graft Sculpting Brings New Approach to Stem Cell Therapy for Highest Risk AML PatientsDana-Farber Cancer Institute | March 16, 2023A novel hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) method utilizing ‘graft sculpting’ is being tested in…pthomsonMarch 16, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week The Conserved Histone Chaperone Spt6 Is Strongly Required for DNA Replication and Genome StabilityMiller, C. L. W., et al. | March 16, 2023Histone chaperones are an important class of proteins that regulate chromatin accessibility for DNA-templated processes.…pthomsonMarch 16, 2023 Read More