Local News Tissue Model Reveals Role of Blood-Brain Barrier in Alzheimer’s MIT News | August 14, 2019 Beta-amyloid plaques, the protein aggregates that form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, disrupt many…sciencecityAugust 14, 2019 Read More
Featured Awards Sanae ElShourbagy Ferreira, PhD, awarded the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship BU School of Medicine | August 14, 2019 Sanae ElShourbagy Ferreira, PhD, BUSM’18 has been awarded the American Association for the Advancement of…sciencecityAugust 14, 2019 Read More
Local News CureVac and Yale Team Up for mRNA-Based Lung Therapies BioSpace | August 14, 2019 Tubingen, Germany-based CureVac has entered a Collaboration Research Agreement with Yale University to focus on lung therapies. CureVac focuses on mRNA…sciencecityAugust 14, 2019 Read More
Local News Pet Imaging Shows If PD-1 Cancer Immunotherapy Is Working Boston Children's Hospital | August 13, 2019 PD-1 is a protein on our T cells that normally keeps these immune cells from…sciencecityAugust 13, 2019 Read More
Local News An Emerging View of RNA Transcription and Splicing MIT News | August 13, 2019 Cells often create compartments to control important biological functions. The nucleus is a prime example;…sciencecityAugust 13, 2019 Read More
Featured Awards Tina Liu Wins Women World Award Wyss Institute | August 13, 2019 Tina Liu, M.B.A. has been honored as a Gold Winner of the Women World Awards in the…sciencecityAugust 13, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Mutations in RABL3 Alter Kras Prenylation and Are Associated with Hereditary Pancreatic Cancer Nissim S., et al. | August 13, 2019 Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is an aggressive cancer with limited treatment options1. Approximately 10% of cases…sciencecityAugust 13, 2019 Read More
Local News Existing Anti-parasitic Drug Could Offer a Treatment for Ebola Boston Children's Hospital | August 12, 2019 Amid the worsening Ebola outbreak in the Congo, now threatening to spill into Rwanda, a new…sciencecityAugust 12, 2019 Read More
Local News Bayer Buys Cambridge Cell Therapy Startup BlueRock at $1B Value Boston Business Journal | August 12, 2019 Drug giant Bayer Inc. has doubled down on one of its previous investment, announcing a…sciencecityAugust 12, 2019 Read More
Local News Mapping the Kinks in Faulty DNA TuftsNow | August 9, 2019 Here is a challenge for you: copy letter-by-letter, word-for-word a document that is 1,200,000 pages…sciencecityAugust 9, 2019 Read More