Awards Biology Major Wins Prestigious Goldwater PrizeUMass Boston | May 13, 2025Kurt Jancsy, a junior majoring in biology and cognitive science at UMass Boston, has been…karnottMay 13, 2025 Read More
Local News How the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center at Broad Is Using Scalable Technologies and AI To Find the Root Cause of DiabetesBroad Institute | May 13, 2025Since the earliest days of her scientific career, Melina Claussnitzer, a metabolic disease researcher at…karnottMay 13, 2025 Read More
Awards Five from Harvard Medical School Elected to National Academy of SciencesHarvard Medical School | May 12, 2025Five Harvard Medical School researchers are among the 150 newly elected members of the National…karnottMay 12, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Signaling and Transcriptional Dynamics Underlying Early Adaptation to Oncogenic BRAF InhibitionFlower, C., et al. | May 12, 2025A major contributor to poor sensitivity to anti-cancer kinase inhibitor therapy is drug-induced cellular adaptation,…karnottMay 12, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week A Window-of-Opportunity Trial Reveals Mechanisms of Response and Resistance to Navtemadlin in Patients With Recurrent GlioblastomaRendo, V., et al. | February 27, 2025Many glioblastomas express wild-type TP53, which may make them susceptible to pharmacological inhibition of MDM2…karnottFebruary 27, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Macrophages Protect Against Sensory Axon Loss in Peripheral NeuropathyHakim, S., et al. | February 24, 2025Peripheral neuropathy is a common complication of type 2 diabetes, which is strongly associated with…karnottFebruary 24, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Mussel-Inspired Cross-Linking Mechanisms Enhance Gelation and Adhesion of Multifunctional Mucin-Derived HydrogelsDegen, G., et al. | February 20, 2025The layers of mucus coating vulnerable surfaces in the body are composed of lubricious, bioactive…karnottFebruary 20, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week GUK1 Activation Is a Metabolic Liability in Lung CancerSchneider, J., et al. | February 17, 2025Little is known about metabolic vulnerabilities in oncogene-driven lung cancer. Here, we perform a phosphoproteomic…karnottFebruary 17, 2025 Read More
Local News Pillai Lab Study Identifies Durable Human B Cell Populations Important for Long-Term ImmunityRagon Institute | April 29, 2025A new study co-authored by Shiv Pillai, MD PhD, reveals two distinct populations of human…karnottApril 29, 2025 Read More
Local News BU Launches an Open-Source Infectious Diseases Monitoring Tool Powered by AI and Human ExpertsThe Brink | April 28, 2025From measles, to influenza, to mpox, to malaria—infectious diseases outbreaks are happening all over the…karnottApril 28, 2025 Read More
Local News Equipping Living Cells With Logic Gates to Fight CancerMIT News | April 25, 2025One of the most exciting developments in cancer treatment is a wave of new cell…karnottApril 25, 2025 Read More
Local News Unusual Labmates: BatsThe Whitehead Institute | April 25, 2025Bats have fascinating biological properties. These include resistance to cancer; long life spans relative to…karnottApril 25, 2025 Read More
Interesting Articles Personalized Medicine Is the Future of Health Care. Two Trump Administration Proposals Could Stymie ItSTAT News | September 29, 2020"It is more important to know what kind of patient the disease has than to…eabramovichSeptember 29, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles Amid Broad Mistrust of FDA and Trump Administration, Drug Companies Seek to Reassure Public About COVID-19 Vaccine SafetySTAT News | September 10, 2020A group of nine leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies pledged on Tuesday to only seek…eabramovichSeptember 10, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles Commission Charts Narrow Path for Editing Human EmbryosScienceMag | September 8, 2020No recent biomedical experiment has caused more consternation than He Jiankui’s creation of the first…eabramovichSeptember 8, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles In ‘Milestone,’ FDA OKs Simple, Accurate Coronavirus Test That Could Cost Just $5ScienceMag | September 1, 2020Coronavirus testing is set to get faster. Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…eabramovichSeptember 1, 2020 Read More
Awards Wyss Institute’s iNodes Team Receives ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health Award to Advance the First Implantable Immune Organs to Treat Ovarian CancerWyss Institute | November 27, 2024Ovarian cancer is more deadly than any other type of female reproductive organ cancer. It…karnottNovember 27, 2024 Read More
Awards Four from MIT Named 2025 Rhodes ScholarsMcGovern Institute | November 26, 2024Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo have been selected as 2025…karnottNovember 26, 2024 Read More
Awards Whitehead Institute Member Sebastian Lourido Receives the 2024 William Trager AwardWhitehead Institute | November 22, 2024The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) selected Whitehead Institute Member Sebastian Lourido…karnottNovember 22, 2024 Read More
Awards Mass General Cancer Center Announces 2024 Recipients of Krantz Awards for Cancer ResearchMassachusetts General Hospital | November 20, 2024The Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research at the Mass General Cancer Center today announced…karnottNovember 20, 2024 Read More
Awards Can We Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias?The Brink | November 19, 2024Recent new drugs for treating Alzheimer’s disease have been heralded as breakthroughs—with the potential to…karnottNovember 19, 2024 Read More
Awards 2024 Kilachand Fund Awards Boost Projects Building Antivirus Platform, Improving Brain Imaging, and Fighting Antibiotic ResistanceThe Brink | November 19, 2024Messenger RNA (or mRNA) vaccines showed their potential as critical virus response tools during the…karnottNovember 19, 2024 Read More
Awards David Flynn Honored by AAMCBoston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | November 18, 2024David Flynn, MS, associate professor in the department of medical sciences & education, has been…karnottNovember 18, 2024 Read More
Awards Research Excellence Award WinnersBrigham and Women's Hospital | November 13, 2024Please join us in congratulating this year’s Research Excellence Award winners! These 13 presenters were…karnottNovember 13, 2024 Read More
Awards MCB’s Dr. Takao Hensch Receives Japanese National HonorHarvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | November 12, 2024Takao Hensch, MCB Professor and Neurology Professor at Boston Children’s Hospital, will receive the Order…karnottNovember 12, 2024 Read More
Awards ‘I Couldn’t Do This Research Without the New Lab’ClarkNOW | November 11, 2024Clark’s Gustaf H. Carlson School of Chemistry and Biochemistry celebrated the launch on Oct. 30…karnottNovember 11, 2024 Read More
Local News A Systems Biologist Uses AI to Understand How the Genome Controls Cell FateThe Broad Institute | May 16, 2025Growing up in the Sichuan province in China, Bo Xia was curious about the nature…sciencecityMay 16, 2025 Read More
Local News New Molecular Label Could Lead to Simpler, Faster Tuberculosis TestsMIT News | May 15, 2025Tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each…karnottMay 15, 2025 Read More
Local News Biologists Identify Targets for New Pancreatic Cancer TreatmentsMIT News | May 15, 2025Researchers from MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered that a class of peptides expressed…sciencecityMay 15, 2025 Read More