Local News Dr. David Chou on Keeping People Safe From Radiation on Earth and Beyond Wyss Institute | June 10, 2026 David Chou’s work is literally out of this world! In addition to identifying radiation countermeasures…karnottJune 10, 2026 Read More
Local News Ultrasound-Based Pacemaker Noninvasively Steadies the Heart MIT News | June 10, 2026 MIT engineers have developed a noninvasive pacemaker that stimulates the heart using ultrasound. The design…karnottJune 10, 2026 Read More
Local News RAS(ON) Inhibitor Doubles Median Overall Survival in Results of Phase 3 Trial for Patients with Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | June 9, 2026 A shift in the way people think about and treat pancreatic cancer could be on…karnottJune 9, 2026 Read More
Awards Ten From MIT Accept 2026 Fulbright Awards MIT News | June 9, 2026 Ten MIT affiliates — including undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni — have accepted Fulbright grants…karnottJune 9, 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
Publications of the Week Synthetic Control of Implanted Engineered Liver Tissue Growth Stoddard, A., et al. | April 27, 2026 Despite the promise of engineered tissue implants for the treatment of organ failure, scaling of…karnottApril 27, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Songbird Connectome Reveals Tunneling of Migratory Neurons in the Adult Striatum Shvedov, N., et al. | April 23, 2026 Immature neurons in the adult brain migrate into existing circuits, contributing to plasticity, learning, and…karnottApril 23, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Deletion of Core 1 β3GalT-Specific Molecular Chaperone (Cosmc) in Murine Intestinal Epithelia Leads to Major Alterations in Glycocalyx and Tumorigenesis Ju, T., et al. | April 21, 2026 Intestinal mucins have extended O-glycans comprised primarily of the common Core 1 O-glycan (Galβ1-3GalNAcα1-Ser/Thr/Tyr) and…karnottApril 21, 2026 Read More
Local News A New Sensor Could Enable Earlier Detection of Bladder Cancer MIT News | June 3, 2026 Every year, about 85,000 Americans are diagnosed with bladder cancer. While treatment is often successful,…karnottJune 3, 2026 Read More
Local News Dr. Myriam Heiman Named the Director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The Picower Institute | June 2, 2026 Myriam Heiman, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Neuroscience, will become the director of…karnottJune 2, 2026 Read More
Local News The Rules Neurons Follow to Make Sense of What We See MIT News | June 2, 2026 Even in the primary visual cortex, a brain region named for its specialized role in…karnottJune 2, 2026 Read More
Local News HSCI Announces New Co-Director Harvard Stem Cell Institute | May 29, 2026 Lee Rubin, Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and leading scholar of neurodegenerative disease,…karnottMay 29, 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 Whitehead Member Dr. Jonathan Weissman Joins Global Cancer Grand Challenges team Whitehead Institute | March 12, 2026 Whitehead Institute Member Jonathan Weissman has been named to a newly funded Cancer Grand Challenges…karnottMarch 12, 2026 Read More
Awards Cathy Wu Joins Global Cancer Grand Challenges Team Taking on the Dark Proteome Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | March 11, 2026 A global, interdisciplinary team of researchers including Dana-Farber’s Cathy Wu, MD have been selected to…karnottMarch 11, 2026 Read More
Awards Three Tufts Researchers Named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors Tufts Now | March 10, 2026 Three Tufts researchers have been named as senior members of the National Academy of Inventors,…karnottMarch 10, 2026 Read More
Awards Dr. Liqun Luo Named Winner of the 2026 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience McGovern Institute | March 9, 2026 Stanford University neuroscientist Liqun Luo was announced as the recipient of the 2026 Edward M.…karnottMarch 9, 2026 Read More
Awards W.M. Keck Foundation To Support Research on Healthy Aging at MIT MIT News | March 6, 2026 A prestigious grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to Alison E. Ringel, an MIT assistant…karnottMarch 6, 2026 Read More
Awards Boston University Biomedical Engineer Ji-Xin Cheng Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow The Brink | March 3, 2026 Light helps us find our way through the dark, keeps us warm, and allows plants…karnottMarch 3, 2026 Read More
Awards 2026 Shipley Prostate Cancer Research Awards Announced Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | March 2, 2026 Please congratulate the recipients of the 2026 Shipley Prostate Cancer Research Awards. Portrait Michael Blower…karnottMarch 2, 2026 Read More
Awards 2026 Sexual Medicine Research Fund Awards Announced Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | February 27, 2026 Please congratulate the recipients of the 2026 Sexual Medicine Research Fund Awards. Vidhya Kumaresan, PhD,…karnottFebruary 27, 2026 Read More
Awards MIT Community Members Elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2026 MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering | February 27, 2026 Seven MIT researchers are among the 130 new members and 28 international members recently elected…karnottFebruary 27, 2026 Read More
Awards Fred Hutch Announces 12 Recipients of the Annual Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award Fred Hutch | February 27, 2026 Fred Hutch Cancer Center announced 12 recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award,…karnottFebruary 27, 2026 Read More
Local News Harvard Hero Dominic Mao Turns Big Ideas Into Opportunities for Students Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | June 12, 2026 When Harvard announced its 2026 Harvard Heroes, one familiar name stood out to members of…karnottJune 12, 2026 Read More
Local News Researchers Publish First Complete Connectome of Fruit Fly Brain and ‘Spinal Cord’ Harvard Medical School | June 12, 2026 In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School…karnottJune 12, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Am80-Lipid Nanoparticles Serve as an Enteric Mucosal Adjuvant Following Parenteral Immunization with Inactivated Polio Vaccine Eshaghi, B., et al. | June 11, 2026 Enteric pathogens are a major contributor to the global disease burden, necessitating vaccines capable of…karnottJune 11, 2026 Read More