Local News Vitamin D May Help Prevent Diabetes, Depending on Your Genes Tufts Now | April 30, 2026 More than two in five U.S. adults have prediabetes, a condition marked by higher-than-normal blood…karnottApril 30, 2026 Read More
Local News From Lemur Gut Health to COVID-19, Amanda Perofsky Studies Infectious Diseases Northeastern Global News | April 30, 2026 What do Madagascar’s lemurs and the COVID-19 pandemic have in common? The answer is Amanda…karnottApril 30, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Inertial Sensing of Water Content in Tumor Spheroids Katsikis, G., et al. | April 29, 2026 Cellular water content governs the concentration of all biomolecules inside a cell, thereby influencing the…karnottApril 29, 2026 Read More
Local News Gaiha Lab Identifies T Cells With Robust Expansion Capability That Help a Rare Group of People Naturally Control HIV After Treatment Interruption Ragon Institute | April 29, 2026 A small number of people living with HIV are able to durably suppress the virus…karnottApril 29, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Microbiota-Mediated Induction of Beige Adipocytes in Response to Dietary Cues Tanoue, T., et al. | March 12, 2026 Interactions between diet and the gut microbiota are fundamental to metabolic health, shaping energy balance…karnottMarch 12, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Bioresorbable RFID Capsule for Assessing Medication Adherence Say, M., et al. | March 9, 2026 Drs. Mehmet Girayhan Say, first author, and Giovanni Traverso, senior author. Swallow, Dissolve, Notify: MIT’s…karnottMarch 9, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week miR126-Mediated Alteration of Vascular Integrity in Rett Syndrome Osaki, T., et al. | March 4, 2026 Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in methyl-CpG binding protein 2…karnottMarch 4, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Functional Dissection of Complex Trait Variants at Single-Nucleotide Resolution Siraj, L., et al. | March 2, 2026 Identifying the causal variants and mechanisms that drive complex traits and diseases remains a core…karnottMarch 2, 2026 Read More
Local News Dang Lab Study Shows Why the Immune System Fails to Eliminate a Dangerous Fungal Pathogen Ragon Institute | April 22, 2026 A new study from the Dang Lab at the Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham,…karnottApril 22, 2026 Read More
Local News Rett Syndrome Study Highlights Potential for Personalized Treatments Picower Institute | April 22, 2026 Using advanced human cell cultures to model Rett syndrome, MIT researchers tracked how two different…karnottApril 22, 2026 Read More
Local News MIT Study Reveals a New Role for Cell Membranes MIT News | April 21, 2026 Cells are enveloped by a lipid membrane that gives them structure and provides a barrier…karnottApril 21, 2026 Read More
Local News New Test Tells Doctors Whether Blood Thinners Are Actually Working Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | April 20, 2026 Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have developed a new laboratory test that…karnottApril 20, 2026 Read More
Interesting Articles The U.S. Just Created a Big New Biomedical Research Agency. But Questions Remain Science Magazine | March 24, 2022 President Joe Biden last week got his wish for a new agency to fund high-risk,…pthomsonMarch 24, 2022 Read More
Interesting Articles NIH Issues a Seismic Mandate: Share Data Publicly Nature News | February 18, 2022 In January 2023, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will begin requiring most of…pthomsonFebruary 18, 2022 Read More
Interesting Articles White House Calls for Consistent Rules for Disclosing Foreign Research Funding Science | January 21, 2022 President Joe Biden’s administration last week ordered federal agencies to draft uniform policies describing the…pthomsonJanuary 21, 2022 Read More
Interesting Articles FDA Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use in Children Five through Eleven Years of Age FDA | November 5, 2021 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine…pthomsonNovember 5, 2021 Read More
Awards Dr. Bongmin (Min) Bae Awarded New American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | February 2, 2026 Bongmin (Min) Bae, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of MCB Professor Amanda Whipple, has…karnottFebruary 2, 2026 Read More
Awards MCB Postdoc Surabhi Sreenivas Awarded ADA Fellowship for Type 2 Diabetes Research Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | January 29, 2026 Surabhi Sreenivas, an MCB postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Maxim Prigozhin has been awarded…karnottJanuary 29, 2026 Read More
Awards Wyss Lumineers Class of 2025 Announced Wyss Institute | January 29, 2026 Innovation at the Wyss Institute doesn’t end when a paper is published or a project…karnottJanuary 29, 2026 Read More
Awards Tufts Vice Provost for Research Named Foreign Fellow of Indian National Science Academy Tufts Now | January 26, 2026 Bernard Arulanandam, vice provost for research at Tufts University and professor of immunology at Tufts…karnottJanuary 26, 2026 Read More
Awards Wyss Institute-Led Collaboration Awarded by ARPA-H PRINT Program to Engineer Off-The-Shelf, Universal, Transplant-Ready Graft for Liver Failure Wyss Institute | January 23, 2026 The majority of human illnesses are caused by damage to a single organ, like the…karnottJanuary 23, 2026 Read More
Awards Ragon Institute Researcher Sophia Liu Awarded $750K Grant from Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to Build Immune Response Map for Antigen Prediction Ragon Institute | January 22, 2026 Sophia Liu, PhD, an Early Independence Fellow and Core Faculty Member at the Ragon Institute…karnottJanuary 22, 2026 Read More
Awards Dr. Mariella Filbin Receives 2026 Emerging Leader Award from the Mark Foundation Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | January 15, 2026 The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research has named Dr. Mariella Filbin, Research Co-Director of the…karnottJanuary 15, 2026 Read More
Awards Nancy Kleckner Recognized for Pioneering Work in Chromosome Dynamics Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | December 19, 2025 Nancy Kleckner, the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology, has been awarded the 2025 Charles…karnottDecember 19, 2025 Read More
Awards David Dosa and Andrew Tapper Named to Newly Established Endowed Chairs UMass Chan Medical School | December 18, 2025 On Tuesday, Dec. 16, the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees voted to approve the…karnottDecember 18, 2025 Read More
Awards Dr. Sara Tolaney Honored with AACR’s Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | December 17, 2025 Dr. Sara M. Tolaney is the recipient of the 2025 AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for…karnottDecember 17, 2025 Read More
Awards Dana-Farber Faculty Elected as Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | May 4, 2026 Alan D’Andrea, MD, and Judy Garber, MD, MPH, both of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, have been…karnottMay 4, 2026 Read More
Local News Harnessing the Power of AI to Fight Lyme Disease Tufts Now | May 1, 2026 Tufts University researchers are using AI and machine learning to more quickly identify potential narrow-spectrum…karnottMay 1, 2026 Read More
Local News Mapping ‘Neighborhoods’ in Aggressive Childhood Brain Tumors Boston Children’s Hospital | May 1, 2026 The third-most common kind of childhood brain tumor, supratentorial ependymoma, is an aggressive cancer that…karnottMay 1, 2026 Read More