Awards Two Dana-Farber Researchers Receive Prestigious New Innovator Award From the National Institutes of Health Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | October 15, 2026 Xin Gu, PhD, and Nicholas Polizzi, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have received New Innovator…karnottOctober 15, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week In Vivo Engineering of CAR Natural Killer Cells for Immunotherapy Using Ligand-Directed Lipid Nanoparticles Chen, Y., et al. | October 15, 2026 Targeted lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) offer a nonviral approach for in vivo cell engineering but efficient…karnottOctober 15, 2026 Read More
Local News Novel Antibody-Drug Conjugate Demonstrates Durable Responses in Patients With Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | October 15, 2026 An investigational antibody-drug conjugate demonstrated clinically meaningful and durable responses in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian…karnottOctober 15, 2026 Read More
Awards Three Broad Researchers Honored by NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Program Broad Institute | October 14, 2026 Broad Institute core members Erin Chen and Sam Peng have each been awarded the NIH…karnottOctober 14, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Cyclin E-CDK2 Regulates Cancer Cell Transcriptional Program and Response to Immunotherapy Through BRD4 Chu, C., et al. | September 11, 2026 The cyclin E-cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) complex is a component of mammalian cell-cycle machinery that…karnottSeptember 11, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Loss of Function of ALDH3B2 Transdifferentiates Human Pancreatic Duct Cells Into β-Like Cells Li, J., et al. | September 9, 2026 Replenishment of pancreatic β cells is key to a cure for diabetes. β cell regeneration…karnottSeptember 9, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Functional Chimeric mRNAs Encode Proteins in Mammalian Immunity Venezia, O., et al. | September 4, 2026 Individual mammalian mRNAs and proteins are typically believed to originate from single genomic loci, with…karnottSeptember 4, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Live-Cell Transcriptomics With Engineered Virus-Like Particles Najia, M., et al. | September 2, 2026 Transcriptomic profiling is widely applied to characterize cellular gene expression, yet existing approaches lyse cells…karnottSeptember 2, 2026 Read More
Local News Dana-Farber Researchers Find Blood Test Could Guide Future Treatment in Ewing Sarcoma Dana-Farber Cancer Center | October 6, 2026 A blood test may help doctors identify which patients with Ewing sarcoma are at greater…karnottOctober 6, 2026 Read More
Local News Study Reveals How Pancreatic Cells Preserve Their Identity Joslin Diabetes Center | October 5, 2026 Diabetes is characterized by the loss or dysfunction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells, and finding…karnottOctober 5, 2026 Read More
Local News New Mechanism of Antiviral Immunity Discovered Harvard Medical School | October 2, 2026 Researchers have figured out a missing piece of the puzzle of how human cells detect…karnottOctober 2, 2026 Read More
Local News Breaking and Entering: How Parasites Prepare Host Cells for Invasion Whitehead Institute | October 1, 2026 Before the parasite Toxoplasma gondii can invade a cell, it has to know it has…karnottOctober 1, 2026 Read More
Interesting Articles New Antibiotic, Clovibactin, Kills Bacteria Without Developing Resistance GEN News | August 25, 2023 A new antibiotic, isolated from bacteria that are unculturable, seems capable of combating harmful bacteria…sciencecityAugust 25, 2023 Read More
Interesting Articles White House Launching $5 Billion Program to Speed Coronavirus Vaccines The Washington Post | April 11, 2023 The Biden administration is launching a $5 billion-plus program to accelerate development of new coronavirus vaccines and…pthomsonApril 11, 2023 Read More
Interesting Articles OSTP Issues Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay The White House | August 26, 2022 Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) updated U.S. policy guidance…pthomsonAugust 26, 2022 Read More
Interesting Articles What a Big New U.S. Law That Reshapes Science Agencies Could Mean for Researchers ScienceInsider | August 4, 2022 More than 2 years in the making, a massive bill that Congress completed this week…pthomsonAugust 4, 2022 Read More
Awards Dr. Ryan Nett Receives NSF CAREER Award to Study Ancient Plants with Modern Medical Promise Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | August 20, 2026 How do plants that first appeared hundreds of millions of years ago produce molecules that…karnottAugust 20, 2026 Read More
Awards Humphries Lab Awarded $8 Million in NIH Grants UMass Chan Medical School | August 18, 2026 Research projects exploring potential treatments for Parkinson’s disease, lupus and sepsis are underway at UMass…karnottAugust 18, 2026 Read More
Awards Dr. Chao Zhang Awarded $2.2M NIH Grant Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | August 17, 2026 Chao Zhang, PhD, assistant professor of medicine/computational biomedicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School…karnottAugust 17, 2026 Read More
Awards With Mass. Women’s Health Award, Team Will Study How Alzheimer’s Risk Varies With Hormone Replacement The Picower Institute | August 11, 2026 Observations conflict about whether hormone replacement therapy increases or decreases Alzheimer’s likelihood for women. With…karnottAugust 11, 2026 Read More
Awards Bryson Lab Receiving Funding to Bring Peru’s Genetic Diversity to TB Vaccine Research Ragon Institute | August 11, 2026 A gift from the Romero Foundation has established the Romero Foundation TB Research Fund at…karnottAugust 11, 2026 Read More
Awards BU-Led Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program Receives $31.5 Million Funding Renewal The Brink | August 5, 2026 A Boston University-led research effort to advance our understanding and treatment of brain aging and…karnottAugust 5, 2026 Read More
Awards MCB Junior Fellow Wins Two Prestigious Evolutionary Science Awards— First Dual Honor in 25 Years Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | August 4, 2026 Wendy Valencia-Montoya, a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows affiliated with the lab…karnottAugust 4, 2026 Read More
Awards Read Pukkila-Worley Receives $3 Million NIH Award for Research on Bacterial Pathogenesis UMass Chan Medical School | August 3, 2026 Read Pukkila-Worley, MD, professor of medicine, is the recipient of a five-year, $3 million award…karnottAugust 3, 2026 Read More
Awards NSF Awards Boston University $20 Million to Help Create National “Cloud Lab” Network The Brink | July 31, 2026 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Boston University $20 million to help create a…karnottJuly 31, 2026 Read More
Awards AI Researcher Receives $745K Bits to Bytes Award from Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to Create the World’s Largest Annotated Spleen Ultrasound Dataset UMass Boston | July 30, 2026 Principal Investigator (PI) Daniel Haehn, PhD, director of UMass Boston’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Core…karnottJuly 30, 2026 Read More
Awards UMass Chan Scientists Named Recipients of Prestigious Young Investigators Award UMass Chan Medical School | October 19, 2026 Two early-career scientists from UMass Chan Medical School have been named recipients of a Brain…karnottOctober 19, 2026 Read More
Awards Mehrdad Jazayeri Receives Robert A. Wurtz Award in Systems Neuroscience McGovern Institute | October 16, 2026 McGovern Investigator Mehrdad Jazayeri has received the 2026 Robert A. Wurtz Award in Systems Neuroscience…karnottOctober 16, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Comprehensive Lineage Tracing Maps the Landscape of Cell Fate Decisions in Mouse Embryogenesis Colgan, W., et al. | October 16, 2026 A comprehensive cell fate map of mammalian embryogenesis has remained out of reach given the…karnottOctober 16, 2026 Read More