Gastrointestinal Disease

Kara McKinley, PhD, principal faculty at HSCI, has been named one of the 2022 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. McKinley and 19 other innovative early-career scientists and engineers will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue...

Dr. McKinley will receive $1.5 million over five years to continue her work in uterine regeneration, focused on establishing an animal model of menstruation. By Alice McCarthy The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award recognizes career excellence among early...

For most cells within the body, identity is non-negotiable: a bladder cell cannot impersonate a blood cell, and a liver cell remains a liver cell. One of the rare exceptions has been thought to be a condition known as Barrett’s esophagus, in which the...

Harvard and MIT researchers identify possible mechanism linking autism and intestinal inflammation Many people with autism spectrum disorders also experience unusual gastrointestinal inflammation, but thus far scientists have not established whether and...

HSCI Principal Faculty member Jose Ordovas-Montanes has received an early-career award from the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF). He has been named a NYSCF – Robertson Investigator, which recognizes cutting-edge research with the potential to...

Press release of the Massachusetts General Hospital Using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has bioengineered functional small intestine segments that, when implanted into rats, were capable...

Hydrogel fibers (pictured above) deliver treatment to inflamed tissue. Photo courtesy of Joerg Ermann By binding to inflamed tissue, hydrogel may offer a new way to deliver medicine for those with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease In the United States...

Harvard Stem Cell researchers and collaborators have shown that they can grow unlimited quantities of intestinal stem cells, then stimulate them to develop into nearly pure populations of different types of mature intestinal cells. Using these cells...