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Lee Rubin, Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and leading scholar of neurodegenerative disease, has been named the next faculty co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI). Effective this spring, he joins current co-director David...

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This post originally appeared on the Mass General Research Institute blog Autumn means the return of fall sports such as soccer and football. Unfortunately, it can also lead to a new wave of sports-related injuries such as tendon tears. Last month, New...

By Anne Manning This article originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette. Many people couldn’t say where their thymus is, or what it does, and even doctors have long considered it expendable in adults. But new Harvard-led research suggests that the walnut...

Jason Buenrostro and Fei Chen are leaders in the field of single-cell genomics, developing new tools to learn more about how cells with the same genome can have such varied functions. By Alice McCarthy For more than 20 years, scientists have been able to...

By Lydialyle Gibson This article originally appeared in Harvard Magazine. Paola Arlotta is searching for the words to describe the clusters of cells, incubating quietly in a small room next to her laboratory, that have profoundly reshaped her life’s work...

Discovery of new mechanism could have wide implications for other cancers By Alice McCarthy Researchers from Harvard’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB)’s Zon lab have discovered a new mechanism that influences melanoma development, a finding...

A one-time treatment using small molecules to target progenitor cells, pioneered in the lab of a Harvard Stem Cell Institute researcher, may potentially restore hearing lost from some of the most common causes By Alice McCarthy Often regarded as a quasi...

Reposted from Brigham Clinical & Research News Throughout our lives, our skin goes through a lot. We get sunburns, we skin our knees, we bleed, we scar and we do it again. Our skin is our largest organ and, in many ways, serves as our protector. Beyond...

By Alice McCarthy A recent paper published in New England Journal of Medicine reveals that treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) with hypomethylating agents (HMAs) activates a sleeping oncogene, leading to poorer survival. This discovery raises the...