Local News When Alzheimer’s Degrades Cells That Cross Hemispheres, Visual Memory SuffersThe Picower Institute | August 23, 2022A new MIT study finds that Alzheimer’s disease disrupts at least one form of visual…pthomsonAugust 23, 2022 Read More
Local News FDA Approves Bluebird Bio’s Lentiviral Gene Therapy to Treat Beta-ThalassemiaGenetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | August 22, 2022The FDA has approved Bluebird Bio’s Zynteglo as the first cell-based gene therapy for the…pthomsonAugust 22, 2022 Read More
Local News Large Analysis Pinpoints Rare, Diverse Genetic Changes in AutismBroad Institute | August 22, 2022A new study of genes underlying neurodevelopmental variability has uncovered more than 70 genes that…pthomsonAugust 22, 2022 Read More
Local News Humsa Venkatesh Probes Cancer’s Grip on the BrainThe Scientist | August 19, 2022After her uncle was diagnosed with a type of kidney cancer called renal cell carcinoma…pthomsonAugust 19, 2022 Read More
Local News Research Reveals How Osteocytes Form Critical Structures That Maintain Bone HealthMassachusetts General Hospital | November 4, 2021Embedded within bone tissue are osteocytes, cells with tree-like projections called dendrites that are important…pthomsonNovember 4, 2021 Read More
Local News An MGRI Milestone: Celebrating a New Permanent Fund for the Mass General Research InstituteMassachusetts General Research Institute | November 4, 2021It’s not often that the celebration of one generous philanthropic gift becomes an occasion to…pthomsonNovember 4, 2021 Read More
Local News Combating Antibiotic ResistanceHarvard Medical School | November 4, 2021As long as antibiotics have existed, so too has antibiotic resistance—the inevitable result as infectious…pthomsonNovember 4, 2021 Read More
Local News UMass Amherst, Brigham and Women’s Hospital to Lead New Center on Artificial Intelligence, Aging and Alzheimer’s Funded by $20 Million NIA GrantBrigham and Women's Hospital | November 4, 2021The University of Massachusetts Amherst and Brigham and Women’s Hospital announced today the launch of…pthomsonNovember 4, 2021 Read More
Local News The Molecules Behind MetastasisWhitehead Institute | January 13, 2023Many cancer cells never leave their original tumors. Some cancer cells evolve the ability to…pthomsonJanuary 13, 2023 Read More
Local News Brandon Ogbunu Is a Radical CollaboratorMIT News | January 13, 2023Learning has always come naturally to Brandon Ogbunu. When he was a child growing up in…pthomsonJanuary 13, 2023 Read More
Local News Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapies Through Cytokine-Labeled T CellsWyss Institute | January 13, 2023The recent years have seen a wave of adoptive cell therapies (ACTs), a type of…pthomsonJanuary 13, 2023 Read More