Local News Scientists Uncover Role of Alzheimer’s-Linked APOE Gene in Glaucoma Protection and Identify Promising Treatment Strategy to Prevent Vision LossBrigham and Women's Hospital | August 18, 2022New research led by scientists at Mass Eye and Ear and Brigham and Women’s Hospital,…pthomsonAugust 18, 2022 Read More
Local News Multiple Shots of the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) Vaccine Protect Patients with Type 1 Diabetes from COVID-19Massachusetts General Hospital | August 18, 2022Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), published a new paper in Cell Reports Medicine demonstrating the protective…pthomsonAugust 18, 2022 Read More
Local News Scientists Identify a Plant Molecule That Sops up Iron-Rich HemeMIT News | August 18, 2022Symbiotic relationships between legumes and the bacteria that grow in their roots are critical for…pthomsonAugust 18, 2022 Read More
Local News Researchers Identify a Key Enzyme That Controls White-to-Brown Fat ConversionBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | August 17, 2022Once considered an inert tissue, fat — or adipose tissue — is now known to…pthomsonAugust 17, 2022 Read More
Local News New Integrative Computational Neuroscience Center Established at MIT’s McGovern InstituteMcGovern Institute | October 19, 2021With the tools of modern neuroscience, researchers can peer into the brain with unprecedented accuracy.…pthomsonOctober 19, 2021 Read More
Local News ‘Elite Neutralizing’ Antibody Demonstrates Long-Term Viral Suppression in Persons Living with HIV in Phase 1 TrialBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | October 19, 2021In the 40 years since the first published reports of the syndrome known as AIDS,…pthomsonOctober 19, 2021 Read More
Local News Mapping the Effects of Genetic Variation, One Letter at a TimeBroad Institute | October 19, 2021In the two decades since the human genome was first sequenced, scientists have learned much…pthomsonOctober 19, 2021 Read More
Local News Cellular Environments Shape Molecular ArchitectureMIT News | October 19, 2021Context matters. It’s true for many facets of life, including the tiny molecular machines that…pthomsonOctober 19, 2021 Read More
Local News FinnGen Study Highlights Underappreciated Complexity of Dosage in Genetic VariationBroad Institute | January 19, 2023An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Helsinki and the…pthomsonJanuary 19, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Assessing and Advancing the Safety of CRISPR-Cas Tools: From DNA to RNA EditingTao, J., et al. | January 19, 2023CRISPR-Cas gene editing has revolutionized experimental molecular biology over the past decade and holds great…pthomsonJanuary 19, 2023 Read More
Local News Denic Lab Discovers an Ancient and Essential Translation Factor ChaperoneHarvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | January 18, 2023Billions of years ago, the first eukaryotic common ancestor split from its archaeal lineage with…pthomsonJanuary 18, 2023 Read More