Local News A Vaccine to Prevent Opioid Overdose? Boston Children's Hospital | August 8, 2019 Sharon Levy, MD, MPH, who directs the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program (ASAP)at Boston Children’s…sciencecityAugust 8, 2019 Read More
Local News Leap Presents Positive Clinical Results for the Combination of DKN-01 plus Keytruda® and Provides DKN-01 Program Update Leap Therapeutics | August 8, 2019 Leap Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTX) today announced that its anti-Dickkopf-1 (DKK1) antibody, DKN-01, in combination with Merck's anti-PD-1 antibody, Keytruda® (pembrolizumab),…sciencecityAugust 8, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Identification, Characterization, and Benefits of an Exclusion System in an Integrative and Conjugative Element of Bacillus Subtilis Avello M., et al. | August 7, 2019 Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) are mobile genetic elements that transfer from cell to cell…sciencecityAugust 7, 2019 Read More
Local News Model Predicts Cognitive Decline Due to Alzheimer’s, Up to Two Years Out MIT News | August 6, 2019 Researchers hope the system can zero in on the right patients to enroll in clinical…sciencecityAugust 6, 2019 Read More
Awards Biology Professor Earns Additional NICHD Grant to Study Fertility in Zebrafish UMass Boston | August 6, 2019 Kellee Siegfried Earned Two NICHD Grants in the 2018-2019 Academic Year Within months after receiving…sciencecityAugust 6, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Treating Ischemia via Recruitment of Antigen-Specific T Cells Kwee, B. J., et al. | August 5, 2019 Ischemic diseases are a leading cause of mortality and can result in autoamputation of lower…sciencecityAugust 5, 2019 Read More
Local News Legal Fight over Broad Institute’s Patent for CRISPR Gene Editing Flares Up Again Boston Business Journal | August 5, 2019 The legal battle over a method of altering a person’s genes — potentially worth billions…sciencecityAugust 5, 2019 Read More
Local News Can Collagen Help Fix Injured Tendons? These Tissue Engineers Think So News@Northeastern | August 2, 2019 Tendon injuries can happen in an instant. With a loud pop and a sharp pain,…sciencecityAugust 2, 2019 Read More
Local News Speeding Up Drug Discovery for Brain Diseases MIT News | August 2, 2019 Whitehead Institute team finds drugs that activate a key brain gene; initial tests in cells…sciencecityAugust 2, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Zebrafish Oxytocin Neurons Drive Nocifensive Behavior via Brainstem Premotor Targets Wee, C., et al. | August 1, 2019 Animals have evolved specialized neural circuits to defend themselves from pain- and injury-causing stimuli. Using…sciencecityAugust 1, 2019 Read More