Local News Study Reveals Why Some Cancer Therapies Don’t Work for All Patients MIT News | April 2, 2026 Drugs that block enzymes called tyrosine kinases are among the most effective targeted therapies for…karnottApril 2, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Cell Painting for Cytotoxicity and Mode-Of-Action Analysis in Primary Human Hepatocytes Ewald, J., et al. | April 1, 2026 Scalable, human-relevant approaches for detecting compound modes of action are needed to improve chemical safety…karnottApril 1, 2026 Read More
Local News BIDMC Researchers Identify Gene Driving Colorectal Cancer Development Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | April 1, 2026 Scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have answered a question that has puzzled…karnottApril 1, 2026 Read More
Awards UMass Chan Junior Faculty Receive Child Health Research Grants From Hood Foundation UMass Chan Medical School | March 31, 2026 A pair of UMass Chan Medical School junior faculty members are being recognized with prestigious…karnottMarch 31, 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
Publications of the Week A Human Electrophysiological Signature of Fragile X Pathophysiology Is Shared in V1 of FMR1-/Y Mice Kornfeld-Sylla, S., et al. | February 26, 2026 Predicting clinical therapeutic outcomes from animal studies using conserved electrophysiological phenotypes could facilitate developing treatments…karnottFebruary 26, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week In Vivo Detection of Immune Responses via Cytokine Activity Labeling Lu, G., et al. | February 24, 2026 While much is known about the identity and regulation of cytokine-producing cells, the cell types…karnottFebruary 24, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Directed Differentiation of Functional Corticospinal-Like Neurons from Endogenous SOX6+/NG2+ Cortical Progenitors Ozkan, A., et al. | February 20, 2026 Corticospinal neurons (CSN) centrally degenerate in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), along with spinal motor neurons,…karnottFebruary 20, 2026 Read More
Local News Simple Blood Tests May Predict Response to Lymphoma Treatment Tufts Now | March 27, 2026 Many people with an aggressive blood cancer called diffuse large B cell lymphoma are cured…karnottMarch 27, 2026 Read More
Local News Scientists Create Novel Organism With Primitive Nervous System TuftsNow | March 25, 2026 In 2020, scientists at Tufts created tiny novel living forms called xenobots from frog cells,…karnottMarch 25, 2026 Read More
Local News New Sensor Sniffs Out Pneumonia on a Patient’s Breath MIT News | March 25, 2026 Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have…karnottMarch 25, 2026 Read More
Local News Thymus May Be Critical for Longevity and Cancer Immunotherapy Response Harvard Medical School | March 24, 2026 Two new studies challenge a decades-old assumption that the thymus, an organ best known for…karnottMarch 24, 2026 Read More
Interesting Articles And the 2023 MGRI Image Awards Winners Are… Bench Press | January 30, 2024 The wait is over! Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2023 MGRI Image…karnottJanuary 30, 2024 Read More
Interesting Articles Rebuilding Public Trust in Science The Brink | October 20, 2023 BU science communication scholars say it’s crucial for higher ed institutions to incentivize public outreach…sciencecityOctober 20, 2023 Read More
Interesting Articles U.S. Cancels Program Aimed at Identifying Potential Pandemic Viruses Science | September 20, 2023 In what many see as fallout from the concern that researchers studying bat viruses may…sciencecitySeptember 20, 2023 Read More
Interesting Articles US Extends Science Pact with China: What It Means for Research Nature | August 28, 2023 The US government has extended for six months a key symbolic agreement to cooperate with…sciencecityAugust 28, 2023 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
Awards Dr. Ryan Nett Awarded 2025–27 George W. Merck Fellowship Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | February 26, 2026 Ryan Nett, MCB assistant professor, has been named a recipient of the 2025–27 George W.…karnottFebruary 26, 2026 Read More
Awards Two Boston University Bioengineers Win Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships The Brink | February 23, 2026 The mathematics done by Boston University’s Brian DePasquale promises tangible help for injury patients. An…karnottFebruary 23, 2026 Read More
Awards Sloan Fellowship Will Help Fan Advance Technology to Study How Brain Circuits Change Amid Learning The Picower Institute | February 19, 2026 Linlin Fan uses innovative optical tools to precisely investigate how connections change among neurons during…karnottFebruary 19, 2026 Read More
Awards Meg Younger and Jeffrey Marlow Selected as 2026 Frontiers of Science Fellows Boston University Biology | February 17, 2026 Dr. Meg Younger and Dr. Jeffrey Marlow were selected by the National Academy of Sciences…karnottFebruary 17, 2026 Read More
Awards Three Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Scientific Leaders Elected as Fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy Class of 2026 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | February 10, 2026 Dr. Alice Shaw, Dr. Kimberly Stegmaier and Dr. Matthew Vander Heiden have been elected as…karnottFebruary 10, 2026 Read More
Awards Dr. Feng Zhang Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame Broad Institute | February 9, 2026 Broad Institute core member Feng Zhang, along with 15 other innovators, will be inducted into…karnottFebruary 9, 2026 Read More
Awards Harvard College Seniors Nominated to Phi Beta Kappa Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | February 6, 2026 We are pleased to announce that the following eight seniors with concentrations in Neuroscience, CPB,…karnottFebruary 6, 2026 Read More
Awards Scientific Director Dr. Facundo Batista Selected for Prestigious AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award Ragon Institute | February 5, 2026 Facundo Batista, PhD, Scientific Director of the Ragon Institute, has been named the 2026 recipient…karnottFebruary 5, 2026 Read More
Awards Two MCB-Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellows Awarded Harvard Brain Initiative Fellowships Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | February 4, 2026 Two postdoctoral researchers affiliated with MCB have been awarded highly competitive Postdoctoral Pioneer Fellowships from…karnottFebruary 4, 2026 Read More
Awards Dana-Farber Chair of Pathology, Dr. Kathleen Burns, Elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | April 3, 2026 Dr. Kathleen Burns, Chair of Pathology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been named a Fellow…karnottApril 3, 2026 Read More
Local News Implantable Islet Cells Could Control Diabetes Without Insulin Injections MIT News | April 2, 2026 Most diabetes patients must carefully monitor their blood sugar levels and inject insulin multiple times…karnottApril 2, 2026 Read More
Local News Study Reveals Why Some Cancer Therapies Don’t Work for All Patients MIT News | April 2, 2026 Drugs that block enzymes called tyrosine kinases are among the most effective targeted therapies for…karnottApril 2, 2026 Read More