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
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
Publications of the Week A Stochastic RNA Editing Process Targets a Select Number of Sites in Individual Drosophila Glutamatergic Motoneurons Crane, A., et al. | December 1, 2025 RNA editing is a post-transcriptional source of protein diversity and occurs across the animal kingdom.…karnottDecember 1, 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
Publications of the Week Prime Editing-Installed Suppressor tRNAs for Disease-Agnostic Genome Editing Pierce, S., et al. | November 21, 2025 Precise genome-editing technologies such as base editing1,2 and prime editing3 can correct most pathogenic gene…karnottNovember 21, 2025 Read More
Local News Transforming Cancer Treatments Through Bioinspired Engineering and Translation Wyss Institute | February 11, 2026 Despite major advances in personalized medicine, targeted drugs, and immunotherapies, many cancers remain difficult –…karnottFebruary 11, 2026 Read More
Local News How Airway ‘Squeezing’ During Asthma Attacks Triggers a Cycle of Worsening Disease Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | February 10, 2026 During asthma flare-ups, a major symptom people experience is bronchoconstriction—when the muscles in the airway…karnottFebruary 10, 2026 Read More
Local News Will Record-High Cancer Survival Rates Continue? The Brink | February 9, 2026 Medicine started the new year with an encouraging first-ever milestone: 70 percent of all cancer…karnottFebruary 9, 2026 Read More
Local News New Tissue Models Could Help Researchers Develop Drugs for Liver Disease MIT News | February 5, 2026 More than 100 million people in the United States suffer from metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver…karnottFebruary 5, 2026 Read More
Interesting Articles Personalized Medicine Is the Future of Health Care. Two Trump Administration Proposals Could Stymie It STAT 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 Safety STAT News | September 10, 2020 A 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 Embryos ScienceMag | September 8, 2020 No 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 $5 ScienceMag | September 1, 2020 Coronavirus testing is set to get faster. Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…eabramovichSeptember 1, 2020 Read More
Awards Sien Verschave and Alain Viel Honored With Anya Bernstein Bassett Award for Excellence in Teaching Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | September 22, 2025 Two dedicated educators from Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) have been recognized…karnottSeptember 22, 2025 Read More
Awards SITC Fellowships Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer | September 18, 2025 The SITC Fellowships program, established through the SITC Forward Fund, helps cultivate the next generation…karnottSeptember 18, 2025 Read More
Awards Whitehead Institute Graduate Student Jimmy Ly Receives the 2025 International Birnstiel Award Whitehead Institute | September 15, 2025 The Max Birnstiel Foundation and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) have named Whitehead…karnottSeptember 15, 2025 Read More
Awards Moura Silva Lab Student Named to 2025 HHMI Gilliam Fellows Program Ragon Institute | September 10, 2025 The Ragon Institute congratulates Anika Hutton of the Moura-Silva Lab on her selection to the…karnottSeptember 10, 2025 Read More
Awards Sabrina Samad Shoily Receives AAUW Fellowship Boston University Biology | September 8, 2025 Biology PhD student Sabrina Samad Shoily of the Garcia-Marcos Lab recently received an International Fellowship…karnottSeptember 8, 2025 Read More
Awards Rudolf Jaenisch Receives the 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize Whitehead Institute | September 5, 2025 Whitehead Institute Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch has been honored with the 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell…karnottSeptember 5, 2025 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
Local News Early Clinical Trial Results Show Promise for Glioblastoma Immunotherapy Harvard Medical School | March 5, 2026 A single injection of an oncolytic virus — a virus that has been genetically modified…karnottMarch 5, 2026 Read More
Local News Injectable “Satellite Livers” Could Offer an Alternative to Liver Transplantation MIT News | March 5, 2026 More than 10,000 Americans who suffer from chronic liver disease are on a waitlist for…karnottMarch 5, 2026 Read More
Local News Balazs Lab Study Reveals HIV Escapes Antibody Therapy Through Predictable Paths, and Blocking Them Can Achieve Sustained Viral Suppression Ragon Institute | March 4, 2026 A new study from the Balazs Lab at the Ragon Institute, published in Immunity, demonstrates…karnottMarch 4, 2026 Read More