Local News A Potential New Weapon in the War Against SuperbugsBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | May 22, 2023The end of modern medicine as we know it.” That’s how the then-director general of…pthomsonMay 22, 2023 Read More
Local News Viruses in the Guts of Centenarians May Help Them Resist PathogensBroad Institute | May 19, 2023New research suggests that centenarians — people who live to be at least 100 —…pthomsonMay 19, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Atrophy in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Spans Multiple Large-Scale Prefrontal and Temporal NetworksEldaief, M. C., et al. | May 19, 2023The identification of a neurodegenerative disorder’s distributed pattern of atrophy—or atrophy “signature”— can lend insights…pthomsonMay 19, 2023 Read More
Local News Not All Statins Are Created EqualWyss Institute | May 18, 2023We’ve all recently gotten a crash-course in drug repurposing, thanks to near-daily news reports about…pthomsonMay 18, 2023 Read More
Local News Is Five Days of COVID Isolation Enough? New BU Study Has Some AnswersThe Brink | April 18, 2022When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in January it was shifting…pthomsonApril 18, 2022 Read More
Local News Who Is Watching the Watchman on Yeast Peroxisome?Harvard University Molecular and Cell Biology | April 18, 2022In a new paper published in eLife, my colleagues in the Denic Lab and I investigated how budding…pthomsonApril 18, 2022 Read More
Local News Schmidt Center Scientists Develop a Robust Machine Learning Approach for Virtual Drug Screening and Other ApplicationsBroad Institute | April 15, 2022In the machine learning world, the “Netflix problem” is a well-known computational challenge: Knowing how…pthomsonApril 15, 2022 Read More
Local News A Spectrum of Cancer CellsWhitehead Institute | April 15, 2022Cancer is at its most deadly when it spreads and forms tumors in new tissues.…pthomsonApril 15, 2022 Read More
Local News Individual Neurons Mix Multiple RNA Edits of Key Synapse Protein, Study FindsMIT News | November 13, 2023Neurons are talkers. They each communicate with fellow neurons, muscles, or other cells by releasing…sciencecityNovember 13, 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
Publications of the Week Global Identification of SWI/SNF Targets Reveals Compensation by EP400Martin, B., et al. | November 13, 2023Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes move and evict nucleosomes at gene promoters and enhancers to…sciencecityNovember 13, 2023 Read More