Awards Dr. Rebecka Sepela Receives L’Oréal USA for Women in Science Fellowship Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | November 26, 2025 MCB postdoctoral fellow Rebecka Sepela has been selected as one of the 2025 L’Oréal USA…karnottNovember 26, 2025 Read More
Local News Whitehead Institute Welcomes Ron Vale as Its Newest Member Whitehead Institute | November 26, 2025 Ron Vale, a world-renowned cell biologist who is an expert on motor proteins and cell…karnottNovember 26, 2025 Read More
Awards Drs. Sameer Sonkusale and Nikhil Nair Honored at 2025 Inventor Recognition Event | November 25, 2025 The entrepreneurial spirit of research by Tufts faculty was on full display this week, as…karnottNovember 25, 2025 Read More
Local News Goodbye CPAP: Tufts Medicine Offers Alternative Solution for Sleep Apnea Patients Tufts Medicine | November 25, 2025 Adrian Velasquez, MD, MPH, ATSF, FAASM, Medical Director of Sleep Medicine at MelroseWakefield Hospital and…karnottNovember 25, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Microglia-Astrocyte Crosstalk Regulates Synapse Remodeling via Wnt Signaling Faust, T., et al. | October 14, 2025 Astrocytes and microglia are emerging key regulators of activity-dependent synapse remodeling that engulf and remove…karnottOctober 14, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Selective HLA Knockdown and PD-L1 Expression Prevent Allogeneic CAR-NK Cell Rejection and Enhance Safety and Anti-Tumor Responses in Xenograft Mice Liu, F., et al. | October 9, 2025 Allogeneic cellular immunotherapy exhibits promising efficacy for cancer treatment, but donor cell rejection remains a…karnottOctober 9, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Regulation of Inflammatory Responses by pH-Dependent Transcriptional Condensates Wu, Z., et al. | October 6, 2025 Inflammation is an essential defense response but operates at the cost of normal tissue functions.…karnottOctober 6, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Engineered Prime Editors With Minimal Genomic Errors Chauhan, V., et al. | October 1, 2025 Prime editors make programmed genome modifications by writing new sequences into extensions of nicked DNA…karnottOctober 1, 2025 Read More
Local News Beating Cancer Cells at Their Own Game by Stepping on Their cGAS Wyss Institute | November 19, 2025 Cancer cells develop various strategies to paralyze immune cells to evade their attack in the…karnottNovember 19, 2025 Read More
Local News Bryson Lab Study Defines TB Vaccine Targets Directly From Infected Human Cells and Shows How to Deliver Them With mRNA Ragon Institute | November 18, 2025 A new study led by the Bryson Lab at the Ragon Institute and published in…karnottNovember 18, 2025 Read More
Local News Using Click Chemistry to Drug ‘Undruggable’ Tumor Suppressors Harvard Medical School | November 17, 2025 Qinheng Zheng is taking unusual approaches to find new ways to treat cancers. Rather than…karnottNovember 17, 2025 Read More
Local News Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS Announces Design with Inflammasome Therapeutics for Upcoming Healey ALS MyMatch Trial The Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS | November 14, 2025 The Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has…karnottNovember 14, 2025 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 Kazuki Nagashima Awarded $100K Gift from Noster to Advance Gut–Immune System Research Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | September 4, 2025 MCB is pleased to announce that MCB Assistant Professor Kazuki Nagashima has received a $100,000…karnottSeptember 4, 2025 Read More
Awards Brink Bites: Using AI to Spot Alzheimer’s; NIH Backs BU COPD Research The Brink | September 3, 2025 The Brink’s latest collection of news nuggets, short stories, and other thought-provoking snippets from the…karnottSeptember 3, 2025 Read More
Awards ACS Announces 2026 National Award Winners American Chemical Society | August 26, 2025 The following are the recipients of national awards administered by the American Chemical Society for…karnottAugust 26, 2025 Read More
Awards Gates Foundation Awards $3 Million in Grants to UMass Chan to Study Gut Health in Pregnant Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries UMass Chan Medical School | August 25, 2025 The Gates Foundation is providing funding to two labs in the Program in Microbiome Dynamics…karnottAugust 25, 2025 Read More
Awards The Wyss Institute’s 2025-2026 Validation Projects Wyss Institute | August 22, 2025 Throughout recent years, the Wyss’ Validation Project mechanism has proven to be a highly valuable…karnottAugust 22, 2025 Read More
Awards Wong Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award Ragon Institute | August 20, 2025 The Ragon Institute congratulates faculty member Harikesh Wong, PhD, Core Member at the Ragon and…karnottAugust 20, 2025 Read More
Awards Dr. Ryan Nett Named Pew Scholar for Innovative Research on Plant-Derived Molecules Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | August 14, 2025 MCB faculty member Ryan Nett has been named a 2025 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical…karnottAugust 14, 2025 Read More
Awards UMass Chan Postdoc Receives Competitive Award from Quebec Research Foundation UMass Chan Medical School | August 11, 2025 A UMass Chan Medical School postdoctoral fellow is one of 14 researchers from Quebec working…karnottAugust 11, 2025 Read More
Awards Samara Vilca Receives Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoc Diversity Enrichment Award UMass Chan Medical School | August 8, 2025 Samara Vilca, PhD, is one of 30 postdoctoral researchers in the United States to receive…karnottAugust 8, 2025 Read More
Awards Camille Testard Named Branco Weiss Fellow for Trailblazing Research on Social Resilience to Ecological Disasters Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | August 6, 2025 Harvard Junior Fellow Camille Testard has been awarded the highly competitive Branco Weiss Fellowship –…karnottAugust 6, 2025 Read More
Local News Gina Wang on Having the NERVE to Detect ALS Wyss Institute | November 28, 2025 Gina Wang approaches baking the same way she approaches scientific experiments. She tracks different variables…karnottNovember 28, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Intracellular Competition Shapes Plasmid Population Dynamics Rossine, F., et al. | November 28, 2025 From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization…karnottNovember 28, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week A Transcriptomic Atlas of Astrocyte Heterogeneity Across Space and Time in Mouse and Marmoset Schroeder, M., et al. | November 27, 2025 How astrocyte regionalization unfolds over development is not fully understood. We used single-nucleus RNA sequencing…karnottNovember 27, 2025 Read More