Featured Awards Whitehead Institute Member Ankur Jain Receives Packard Foundation Fellowship Whitehead Institute | October 16, 2019 The David & Lucile Packard Foundation today announced that Whitehead Institute Member Ankur Jain has been named…sciencecityOctober 16, 2019 Read More
Local News Mass General Hospital Researchers Identify Potential Therapy for Liver Disease in People Living with HIV Mass General News | October 16, 2019 A team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) led by Steven Grinspoon, MD, has identified a…sciencecityOctober 16, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Bacterial Variability in the Mammalian Gut Captured by a Single-Cell Synthetic Oscillator Riglar, D., T., et al. | October 15, 2019 Synthetic gene oscillators have the potential to control timed functions and periodic gene expression in…sciencecityOctober 15, 2019 Read More
Featured Awards American Heart Association Funds Professor’s Study of How Blood Vessels Respond to Exercise Training UMass News | October 15, 2019 Assistant Professor of Exercise and Health Sciences Huimin Yan has received a two-year, $154,000 American Heart Association Institutional…sciencecityOctober 15, 2019 Read More
Local News CRISPR Enzyme Programmed to Kill Viruses in Human Cells Broad Institute | October 14, 2019 Many of the world’s most common or deadly human pathogens are RNA-based viruses — Ebola,…sciencecityOctober 14, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Structural Basis for the Docking of mTORC1 on the Lysosomal Surface Rogala, K.,B., et al. | October 14, 2019 The mTORC1 protein kinase regulates growth in response to nutrients and growth factors. Nutrients promote…sciencecityOctober 14, 2019 Read More
Local News Ra Pharma Acquired for $2.1B by Belgian Firm That Vows to Grow in Boston Boston Business Journal | October 11, 2019 Ra Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is in late-stage trials of a drug to treat a rare…sciencecityOctober 11, 2019 Read More
Featured Awards Deborah L. Levy, PhD, to Receive 2019 Valiant Researcher Award October 9, 2019 McLean Hospital | October 11, 2019 The Schizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America (SARDAA) will present Deborah L. Levy, PhD, director of the…sciencecityOctober 11, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week A Luminal Unfolding Microneedle Injector for Oral Delivery of Macromolecules Salvador, E., C., et al. | October 11, 2019 We developed an ingestible system capable of applying small micro-needle patches in the small intestine…sciencecityOctober 11, 2019 Read More
Local News New Method Visualizes Groups of Neurons as They Compute MIT News | October 11, 2019 Using a fluorescent probe that lights up when brain cells are electrically active, MIT and…sciencecityOctober 11, 2019 Read More