Researchers at @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social identify two complementary mechanisms that allow cells to preserve #StemCell potential while adopting distinct identities.
Learn about the work from Dr. Amelie Raz and the Yamashita lab: https://bit.ly/4899pOF
How do nervous systems produce behaviors? A new @mit.edu study provides a detailed mechanistic mapping of exactly what happens in the brains of C. elegans worms when they “follow their nose” to savor attractive odors or avoid unappealing ones.
🪱: https://bit.ly/4cqNa87
How are Boston researchers contributing to the historic Artemis II mission? 🚀
The AVATAR project is providing proof-of-concept for including human #OrganChips on future missions to assess the effects of spaceflight on the human body: https://bit.ly/4crlIae
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Leukemia is adept at dodging the immune system.
To combat this, @broadinstitute.org researchers have identified a key part of the cancer’s disguise: a protein called CD43. CD43 sits on the surface of #leukemia cells and creates a sugar barrier to block the immune system: https://bit.ly/4t69lYo
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🤩 The @ragoninstitute.bsky.social have announced Drs. Jennie Ruelas Castillo and Jonathan Padilla Gómez as the inaugural recipients of the FEMSA Fellowship.
Congratulations! https://bit.ly/4tD8yht
For NASA’s Artemis II mission, Wyss scientists sent Organ Chip "avatars" made from astronaut cells into deep space. These chips mimic bone marrow function & will help researchers understand how space travel affects the body. Findings could contribute to biomedical advancements for patients on Earth.
Research by Dr. Milena Bogunovic & Sravya Kurapati sheds light on how GI tract inflammation can lead to long lasting consequences for patients that develop functional motility disorders.
💡 Learn more from the @umasschan.bsky.social team: https://bit.ly/4tIJxlf
🤓 Abstract: https://bit.ly/4sq6Dfd
Is the "relocation rule" real? 🧳
If you’re weighing a postdoc move, considering a faculty position, or thinking strategically about long-term independence, the latest episode of Lab Coats & Life™ Podcast offers a grounded and practical perspective. #GradLife
Enterococcus faecalis can survive inside tissues, alter the wound environment, and weaken immune signals at the injury site.
@mit.edu researchers have discovered how E. faecalis releases lactic acid to acidify its surroundings and suppresses immune-cell signals https://bit.ly/4c3Hvog
Neil H. Shubin to Give 2026 Prather Lectures, April 15, 16, and 17
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🎈 Congratulations to the Boston researchers recently named as Fellows of the @aaas.org!
Dr. Fen-Biao Gao: https://bit.ly/4siOUpS
Drs. Alice Cronin-Golomb (@alicecg.bsky.social) and Plamen Ch. Ivanov: https://bit.ly/47O8IKv
Dr. Kathleen Burns: https://bit.ly/4ca1Zf7
A new study from Dr. Seth Bloom and the Kwon lab at the @ragoninstitute.bsky.social provides the most detailed picture yet of how a promising bacterial therapy works to prevent recurrent bacterial vaginosis and why it works better for some women than others.
🧐 Read now: https://bit.ly/47DhwTq
🧪 @mit.edu researchers are developing an implantable device that contains insulin-producing cells. The device carries an on-board oxygen generator to keep the cells healthy.
This device could offer a way to achieve long-term control of #Type1Diabetes: https://bit.ly/486W0qg
Drs. Silvia Galván Peña (@galvanpenas.bsky.social)and Jin Zhang from @umasschan.bsky.social are two of five recipients of 2026 Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Awards.
Their projects aim to address chronic conditions and disorders in children: https://bit.ly/4sUD6v2
Scientists from the @broadinstitute.org report the largest analysis to date of the human DNA #virome — the collection of viruses in the body that have DNA as their genetic material.
Learn more about the work from Nolan Kamitaki and the Loh lab: https://bit.ly/410eC7F
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"I am making history by building bridges between our Wyss bioinspired research teams and their technologies and commercial and clinical partners...so our great technologies move into the hands of patients and providers to solve healthcare problems." -Gretchen Fougere
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A promising novel treatment regimen for #BloodCancer suggests that immune signatures found in blood samples could help identify poor treatment responders early.
🐶 This study was conducted in pet dogs at @tufts.edu: https://bit.ly/4lSAs6m
The @ragoninstitute.bsky.social has announced the 2026 recipients of the Giammaria and Sabrina Giuliani Faculty Support Fund: Drs. Amy Barczak, Gaurav Gaiha, Douglas Kwon, and Sophia Liu!
🤩 Congratulations to all researchers: https://bit.ly/4bLNqhA
🧟 It's (sort of) alive!
In 2020, scientists at @tufts.edu created tiny novel living forms called #xenobots from frog cells. Now, they've expanded to add nerve cells and observe how they self-organize and alter xenobot behavior: https://bit.ly/4bLU1Zs
Researchers in the Tadesse lab at @mit.edu are sniffing out pneumonia!
Their new breath test is a portable, chip-scale sensor that traps and detects #biomarkers of disease, which are initially attached to inhalable nanoparticles: https://bit.ly/4bvYvEM
A new study co-led by @harvardmcb.bsky.social’s Dr. Kazuki Nagashima identifies plant-derived molecules that help quiet the #ImmuneSystem, preventing inflammatory reactions to the foods we eat every day.
🌱 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4swmjOq
Dr. Jeffrey Marlow (@jjmarlow.bsky.social) from @bostonu.bsky.social has been selected to join the National Academies’ latest New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine cohort.
The honor is given to “outstanding mid-career scientists": https://bit.ly/4rZGLax
Congratulations!🎈
A new study from Dr. Ruhul Ali Khan and the Ghebremichael Lab at the @ragoninstitute.bsky.social introduces a statistical method that evaluates biologically linked outcomes jointly.
With this method, they evaluated the efficacy of antiretroviral therapy for #HIV: https://bit.ly/4s449Uk
Get your #SciencePodcast queue up!
Drs. George Murphy and Stacy Andersen from @bostonu.bsky.social sit down to discuss #HealthyAging and the future of longevity.
🎧 Listen to the latest episode of the ReProgram podcast: https://bit.ly/47oEa1C
In a new study from the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social, Drs. Yukiko Yamashita, Romain Lannes, and Adrienne Fontan identified a cellular defect that contributes to reproductive incompatibility.
🧪 Abstract: https://bit.ly/3P4Jnp6
🗞️ Press release: https://bit.ly/4smOPCJ
Three @tufts.edu researchers have been named as senior members of the National Academy of Inventors.
👏 Congratulations to Drs. Simin Nikbin Meydani, Bruce Kristal, and Athena Papas: https://bit.ly/4rx6iHm
Two new papers published in PNAS from a @harvardmcb.bsky.social lab shine fresh light on one of biology’s most iconic molecular machines: the bacterial flagellar motor.
See the work from Drs. Aravi Samuel, Alina Vrabioiu, and Gabriel Hosu: https://bit.ly/4bf9HUK
Researchers at @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social are studying #Cdiff at multiple levels, from how individual bacterial cells behave inside the gut to the molecular switches that help them spread.
They have revealed vulnerabilities that could lead to better prevention: https://bit.ly/4scbLEg
