Local News Researchers Identify the Hormone that Drives Fatigue After Cancer Radiation Therapy Massachusetts General Hospital | January 6, 2023 Fatigue is a common and potentially debilitating side effect of cancer radiation therapy. A team…pthomsonJanuary 6, 2023 Read More
Local News New Tool Can Assist with Identifying Carbohydrate-Binding Proteins MIT News | January 6, 2023 One of the major obstacles that those conducting research on carbohydrates are constantly working to…pthomsonJanuary 6, 2023 Read More
Local News A New Understanding of Diabetes Whitehead Institute | January 6, 2023 Type 2 diabetes affects hundreds of million people around the world, is responsible for many…pthomsonJanuary 6, 2023 Read More
Local News New Technologies Revealing Cross-Cutting Breakdowns in Alzheimer’s Disease The Picower Institute | January 5, 2023 After decades of fundamental scientific and drug discovery research, Alzheimer’s disease has remained inscrutable and…pthomsonJanuary 5, 2023 Read More
Local News Biological Engineers Find a New Target for Malaria Drugs MIT News | August 12, 2021 Every year, more than 200 million people are infected with malaria, and nearly 500,000 die…pthomsonAugust 12, 2021 Read More
Local News The Search for a Regeneration Switch Proto | August 11, 2021 An axolotl is hard to call cute, exactly. Paired off in rows of numbered tanks…pthomsonAugust 11, 2021 Read More
Local News Scientists Discover How Immune Cells Survive Their Battle with Cancer Massachusetts General Hospital | August 11, 2021 The body’s immune system can recognize and attack cancer cells, but when those are able…pthomsonAugust 11, 2021 Read More
Local News New Method Opens the Door to Efficient Genome Writing in Bacteria MIT News | August 11, 2021 Biological engineers at MIT have devised a new way to efficiently edit bacterial genomes and…pthomsonAugust 11, 2021 Read More
Local News Staying Ahead of Virus Mutations The Harvard Gazette | October 16, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic seemed like a never-ending parade of SARS-CoV-2 variants, each equipped with new…sciencecityOctober 16, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Cell-Type-Specific Regulation of APOE and CLU Levels in Human Neurons by the Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Gene SORL1 Lee, H., et al. | October 13, 2023 SORL1 is implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) through genetic studies. To interrogate…sciencecityOctober 13, 2023 Read More
Awards BU Researcher Awarded $3.7 Million to Study How Endothelial Cell Health Impacts Disease Boston University | October 13, 2023 Naomi Hamburg, MD, the Joseph A. Vita Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian &…sciencecityOctober 13, 2023 Read More