Publications of the Week Transcription Factor Networks Disproportionately Enrich for Heritability of Blood Cell PhenotypesMartin-Rufino, J., et al. | April 21, 2025This week, we profile a recent publication in Science by Dr. Vijay Sankaran’s lab (pictured,…karnottApril 21, 2025 Read More
Local News A New Computational Framework Illuminates the Hidden Ecology of Diseased TissuesMIT Chemistry | April 21, 2025To understand what drives disease progression in tissues, scientists need more than just a snapshot…karnottApril 21, 2025 Read More
Awards Harvard Medical School Researcher Receives Prestigious 2025 Gairdner AwardHarvard Medical School | April 18, 2025Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, professor of cell biology, emeritus, in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School,…karnottApril 18, 2025 Read More
Local News Could LLMs Help Design Our Next Medicines and Materials?MIT News | April 18, 2025The process of discovering molecules that have the properties needed to create new medicines and…karnottApril 18, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Reverse-Engineering Placebo Analgesia | September 17, 2024Placebo analgesia is a widely observed clinical phenomenon. Establishing a robust mouse model of placebo…karnottSeptember 17, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week CDK5-Cyclin B1 Regulates Mitotic FidelityZheng, X., et al. | September 12, 2024CDK1 has been known to be the sole cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) partner of cyclin B1…karnottSeptember 12, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Tumor Editing Suppresses Innate and Adaptive Antitumor Immunity and Is Reversed by Inhibiting DNA MethylationZhang, Y., et al. | September 11, 2024Cancer cells edit gene expression to evade immunosurveillance. However, genome-wide studies of gene editing during…karnottSeptember 11, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week RAD21 Promotes Oncogenesis and Lethal Progression of Prostate CancerSu, X., et al. | September 4, 2024Chromosome arm 8q is the most frequently gained chromosome arm in aneuploid prostate cancer and…karnottSeptember 4, 2024 Read More
Local News A Surprising Link Between Crohn’s Disease and the Epstein-Barr VirusBoston Children’s Hospital | March 12, 2025Crohn’s disease, a debilitating inflammatory bowel disease, has many known contributing factors, including bacterial changes…karnottMarch 12, 2025 Read More
Local News Knitted Microtissue Can Accelerate HealingMIT News | March 12, 2025Treating severe or chronic injury to soft tissues such as skin and muscle is a…karnottMarch 12, 2025 Read More
Local News Helping the Immune System Attack TumorsMIT News | March 11, 2025In addition to patrolling the body for foreign invaders, the immune system also hunts down…karnottMarch 11, 2025 Read More
Local News Modeling Urinary Tract Disorders on a Chip: Zohreh IzadifarBoston Children’s Hospital | March 10, 2025When a new tissue sample arrives from the Department of Urology, the Boston Children’s Hospital…karnottMarch 10, 2025 Read More
Awards Dana-Farber Physician Zuzana Tothova Receives Doris Duke Foundation Paragon Award for Research ExcellenceDana-Farber Cancer Institute | November 23, 2023The Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) announced Zuzana Tothova, MD, PhD, an investigator in the Department…karnottNovember 23, 2023 Read More
Awards Rewarding Excellence in Open DataMIT News | November 22, 2023The second annual MIT Prize for Open Data, which included a $2,500 cash prize, was…karnottNovember 22, 2023 Read More
Awards Marcus Ruscetti Receives American Cancer Society Award for Prostate Cancer ResearchUMass Chan Medical School | November 20, 2023Marcus Ruscetti, PhD, assistant professor of molecular, cell & cancer biology, received a Research Scholar…sciencecityNovember 20, 2023 Read More
Awards Gene-Wei Li and Michael Birnbaum Named Pew Innovation Fund InvestigatorsMIT News | November 16, 2023MIT professors Gene-Wei Li and Michael Birnbaum are among the 12 researchers named 2023 Innovation…sciencecityNovember 16, 2023 Read More
Awards Award Honors Elly Nedivi’s Research on Cortical PlasticityThe Picower Institute | November 13, 2023The Krieg Cortical Kudos Discoverer Award recognizes Nedivi’s ongoing work to understand molecular and cellular…sciencecityNovember 13, 2023 Read More
Awards MIT Scientists Receive NIH BRAIN Initiative GrantsMIT News | November 9, 2023In the human brain, 86 billion neurons form more than 100 trillion connections with other…sciencecityNovember 9, 2023 Read More
Awards Dr. Pradeep Natarajan to Receive the 2023 Joseph A. Vita AwardAmerican Heart Association | November 8, 2023The American Heart Association will present its 2023 Joseph A. Vita Award to Pradeep Natarajan,…sciencecityNovember 8, 2023 Read More
Awards Dr. Deborah Lang Receives Grant to Examine How Some Genes Are Disrupted at the DNA, RNA Level, Cause MelanomaBoston University | November 7, 2023Deborah Lang, PhD, associate professor of dermatology has been awarded a two-year, $300,000 Discovery Boost…sciencecityNovember 7, 2023 Read More
Awards Mark Bear Wins SfN’s Julius Axelrod PrizeThe Picower Institute | November 3, 2023Society for Neuroscience Award recognizes Professor Mark Bear’s synaptic plasticity research, its translation to potential…sciencecityNovember 3, 2023 Read More
Awards Eight Harvard Medical School Researchers Receive NIH AwardsHarvard Medical School | November 2, 2023Eight Harvard Medical School researchers have been awarded High-Risk, High-Reward Research program grants by the…sciencecityNovember 2, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Model-Guided Design of microRNA-Based Gene Circuits Supports Precise Dosage of Transgenic Cargoes Into Diverse Primary CellsLove, K., et al. | May 2, 2025In a therapeutic context, supraphysiological expression of transgenes can compromise engineered phenotypes and lead to…karnottMay 2, 2025 Read More
Awards Yukiko Yamashita Elected to the National Academy of SciencesWhitehead Institute | May 2, 2025Whitehead Institute Member, MIT Professor of Biology, and HHMI Investigator Yukiko Yamashita has been elected…karnottMay 2, 2025 Read More
Awards Harvard Graduate Student Dean Rosenthal Wins Prestigious NSF Graduate Research FellowshipHarvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | May 1, 2025Dean Rosenthal, a second-year PhD student in Harvard’s Biological Sciences in Public Health (BPH) program,…karnottMay 1, 2025 Read More