Local News Chemical Screening Suggests a Two-Pronged Treatment for Pediatric Ewing Sarcoma Boston Children's Hospital | August 19, 2019 For children with Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer, a combination of two different classes of…sciencecityAugust 19, 2019 Read More
Local News AbbVie Receives FDA Approval of RINVOQ™ (Upadacitinib), an Oral JAK Inhibitor For The Treatment of Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis AbbVie | August 19, 2019 - RINVOQ (upadacitinib) met all primary and ranked secondary endpoints across a variety of patients…sciencecityAugust 19, 2019 Read More
Local News Calling Life Science Innovators: Don’t Miss Your Chance for a “Golden Ticket” to LabCentral BioSpace | August 16, 2019 Novo Nordisk to award promising start-ups free space at Boston's premier, biotech-capable shared lab facility…sciencecityAugust 16, 2019 Read More
Local News Bug Buddies: Engineered Bacteria Create Friendlier Microbial Neighborhoods Harvard Medical School | August 16, 2019 Bacteria, like people, have complicated relationships: they can either be friendly, neutral or antagonistic toward…sciencecityAugust 16, 2019 Read More
Local News Exercise Associated with Benefit to Patients with Advanced Colorectal Cancer Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | August 15, 2019 Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who engaged in moderate exercise while undergoing chemotherapy tended to…sciencecityAugust 15, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week The Landscape of Genetic Content in the Gut and Oral Human Microbiome Tierney T.,B., et al. | August 15, 2019 Despite substantial interest in the species diversity of the human microbiome and its role in…sciencecityAugust 15, 2019 Read More
Local News Tissue Model Reveals Role of Blood-Brain Barrier in Alzheimer’s MIT News | August 14, 2019 Beta-amyloid plaques, the protein aggregates that form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, disrupt many…sciencecityAugust 14, 2019 Read More
Featured Awards Sanae ElShourbagy Ferreira, PhD, awarded the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship BU School of Medicine | August 14, 2019 Sanae ElShourbagy Ferreira, PhD, BUSM’18 has been awarded the American Association for the Advancement of…sciencecityAugust 14, 2019 Read More
Local News CureVac and Yale Team Up for mRNA-Based Lung Therapies BioSpace | August 14, 2019 Tubingen, Germany-based CureVac has entered a Collaboration Research Agreement with Yale University to focus on lung therapies. CureVac focuses on mRNA…sciencecityAugust 14, 2019 Read More
Local News Pet Imaging Shows If PD-1 Cancer Immunotherapy Is Working Boston Children's Hospital | August 13, 2019 PD-1 is a protein on our T cells that normally keeps these immune cells from…sciencecityAugust 13, 2019 Read More