Malaria researchers at @hsph.harvard.edu have identified a new way #malaria parasites may become less responsive to treatment. 🗞️ Press release: https://bit.ly/4xmjaTS 🔬 Abstract in Nature Communications: https://go.nature.com/4w9f4NR

Help us welcome the final group of our 2026 RISE interns! RISE is our summer internship program, which aims to inspire young people from surrounding communities to consider a career in medical research and immunology by offering a mentored internship. (1/2) #Interns #Immunology

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#IBS and other motility disorders can be challenging to treat, with current therapies focused on easing symptoms. Research led by Dr. Meenakshi Rao at @bostonchildrens.bsky.social has identified a remarkable way that gut microbes and sex hormones regulate #GutMotility: https://on.bchil.org/45pwMSi

🤯 The NSF has awarded @bostonu.bsky.social $20 million to help create a national network of cloud labs, AI-infused research facilities that can remotely run science and engineering studies. Learn more about how this lab will enable researchers across the country: https://bit.ly/4yMXzoW

💡 In a new Nature article, Drs. Gabriele Casirati, Andrea Cosentino, & the Genovese Lab at @danafarber.bsky.social described an alternative to chemotherapy and radiation conditioning to enable hematopoietic #StemCellTransplantation. Learn more in our Q&A with the authors: https://bit.ly/4hDFjs1

Drs. Alex Pauer, Robert Rasmussen, and Donald Ingber at the @wyssinstitute.bsky.social are heading a newly funded project to create a next-generation #metabolomics and #lipidomics analytical platform. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bLCtgW

Dr. Eviatar Yemini at @umasschan.bsky.social has received an AI Accelerator Seed Project Award from UMass Amherst CDSAI. 🎖️ This award will allow Dr. Yemini to develop novel computational algorithms that detect and identify different #neuron types from 3D images: https://bit.ly/4yvJvjE

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🩸@mit.edu engineers have found they can engineer and control the growth of blood vessels by mechanically stretching them. The team has built a human “blood vessel on a chip,” composed of a central artery made from human #EndothelialCells: https://bit.ly/3TOnYTl

A @umasschan.bsky.social research team has received authorization from the FDA to proceed with a Phase I/II #ClinicalTrial of a second-generation AAV gene therapy for GM2 gangliosidosis, a group of rare inherited #NeurodegenerativeDisorders. 🔎 https://bit.ly/4vKb1Yd

Dr. Sebastian Lourido and Dominic Schwarz at the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social have uncovered new details about how #Toxoplasma controls the timing of protein production. 🥼 Abstract: https://go.nature.com/4pxugTj 🗞️ Press release: https://bit.ly/3TejqWe

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A new tool has just vastly broadened the scale at which researchers can study viral proteins, helping to speed basic discoveries in #virology. The tool, called a viral ORFeome, was developed by Dr. Stephen Elledge's lab at @harvardmed.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4wJKRWd

Quilee Simeon is using machine learning and AI to simulate the nervous system of small model organisms for his doctoral research at the McGovern Institute. The goal is to use those simulations as a window into understanding how an animal’s #NervousSystem executes tasks: https://bit.ly/3T7vKrh

Researchers from the lab of @harvardmcb.bsky.social's Dr. Sharad Ramanathan have developed a rapid, inexpensive method for introducing the same #CRISPR gene perturbation into nearly every cell of a developing human #organoid. 📰 Read all about it! https://bit.ly/4piQqIZ

A consortium of 12 organizations, led by the @broadinstitute.org, has been selected to receive funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) under its THRIVE program. Dr. Daria Fedyukina leads the THRIVE program. Learn more about their work: https://bit.ly/4fcJNTB

Dr. Fan Wang and her team at the McGovern Institute has discovered how neurons in a mouse’s brainstem use signals from the animal’s touch-sensitive whiskers to estimate an object’s distance from the face. 🐭 https://bit.ly/3TznZKL

Each year, the @wyssinstitute.bsky.social’s Validation Project program identifies technologies that are ready to move beyond the discovery and into the validation phase. Learn more about the 16 teams and their projects: https://bit.ly/3Rwy5eO #BrainHealth #WomensHealth #InfectiousDisease

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Tinnitus—a condition characterized by phantom ringing in the ears—is common among former NFL players and is often accompanied by worse mental health, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard Chan School.

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Tinnitus—a condition characterized by phantom ringing in the ears—is common among former NFL players and is often accompanied by worse mental health, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.

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Melanie Barbini at @umasschan.bsky.social is the recipient of a 3-year predoctoral fellowship from @niaidnews.bsky.social. She will investigate how a specific protein expressed by ependymal cells contributes to inflammation in the central nervous system. 🥳 Congratulations! https://bit.ly/4gXd33m

A new study from @danafarber.bsky.social reports the first potent and selective compound to target IRF4 and validates degradation of IRF4 as a potential approach to the treatment of #MultipleMyeloma. 🔎 See the abstract from Drs. Jun Qi and @ireneghobrial.bsky.social: https://go.nature.com/4wq8rY0

Research by Dr. Katherine Fitzgerald and Wei Zhan at @umasschan.bsky.social shows potential for increasing vaccine efficacy. 💉 The findings have the potential to transform otherwise weak vaccine adjuvants into powerful innate #ImmuneSystem stimulators: https://bit.ly/4b9B2bO

Wyss startup Dyno Therapeutics is developing optimized Adeno-associated viruses to enable a new generation of more effective, safer gene therapies across a large spectrum of diseases.

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Help us honor an innovative researcher who is able to adopt or adapt information or techniques from outside their fields to solve a major contemporary challenge. Submit a nomination for the 2027 James Prize in Science and Technology Integration: www.nasonline.org/programs/awa... #NASaward

A new statistical framework could speed up the search for rare mutations that cause common diseases like #Parkinson's, helping researchers zero in on possible therapeutic targets. Learn about the framework, called NERINE, from the Sunyaev and Khurana labs at @harvard.edu: https://bit.ly/4eQQoEF

Metastatic melanoma is the deadliest form of #SkinCancer. @danafarber.bsky.social’s Dr. Megan Insco and colleagues examined how melanoma cells misuse RNA. 🥼 Abstract in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4xZcfkD 🗞️ Press release: https://bit.ly/4gg94Pe

📝 A team of @harvardmcb.bsky.social scientists has published findings that fundamentally challenge how we think about #BrainDevelopment. The study reveals that neural activity actually dictates how neurons wire themselves together, rather than the reverse: https://bit.ly/4eEd7DD

🤩 Raphael Reyes, a research fellow in the Batista Lab at @ragoninstitute.bsky.social, is the recipient of the 2026 Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Fellowship in Immunotherapy. His research investigates how the immune system helps maintain a healthy vaginal microbiome: https://bit.ly/4wiH7ed