Local News Teenage Sleep Hygiene: Irregular Sleep Schedules Increase Obesity, Cardiometabolic Risk Harvard Medical School | September 20, 2019 A new study led by Harvard Medical School researchers at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children…sciencecitySeptember 20, 2019 Read More
Local News Unknowing Choice: In Procedures for Sepsis, Selection of Anesthetic May Matter Harvard Medical School | September 19, 2019 Sepsis, an extreme immune response to infection, has no specific treatment and is a leading…sciencecitySeptember 19, 2019 Read More
Featured Awards Junior Faculty Recognized with Career Development Awards BU School of Medicine | September 19, 2019 Studying refugees in the Trump era’s political climate is, as Heba Gowayed diplomatically puts it, “suboptimal.” So…sciencecitySeptember 19, 2019 Read More
Local News Human Hearts Evolved for Endurance: Study Makes Breakthrough Finding about Heart Structure and Function MGH News | September 18, 2019 Major physical changes occurred in the human heart as people shifted from hunting and foraging…sciencecitySeptember 18, 2019 Read More
Local News Study Shows Benefit of PARP Inhibitor for Some Ovarian Cancer Patients Dana-Farber Cancer Research Institute | September 18, 2019 For patients with recurrent ovarian cancer that has been brought into remission with platinum-based chemotherapy,…sciencecitySeptember 18, 2019 Read More
Local News Mathematical Model Finds the Cancer Mutations That Matter Broad Institute | September 17, 2019 The new tool more accurately distinguishes mutations that drive cancer from ones that don’t, and…sciencecitySeptember 17, 2019 Read More
Local News Babies’ EEG Patterns Predict Whether They Will Develop Autism Boston Children's Hospital | September 17, 2019 Signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) typically start to become apparent only in a child’s…sciencecitySeptember 17, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week The Fundamental Role of Chromatin Loop Extrusion in Physiological V(D)J Recombination Zhang, Y., et al. | September 16, 2019 The RAG endonuclease initiates Igh V(D)J assembly in B cell progenitors by joining D segments to JH segments,…sciencecitySeptember 16, 2019 Read More
Featured Awards Assistant Biology Professor’s $979K CAREER Grant Will Help Understand Disease Management in Frogs, Human Gut and Lungs UMass Boston | September 16, 2019 There’s a community of microscopic organisms, called a microbiome, that live on each northern leopard…sciencecitySeptember 16, 2019 Read More
Awards A Silly-Sounding Prize for Some Serious Science Harvard Gazette | September 13, 2019 Harvard-trained doctor David Sachar and Brigham and Women Hospital’s pathologist and senior lecturer Noel Rose…sciencecitySeptember 13, 2019 Read More