Aging Research Group

Adapted from a Boston Children's Hospital press release. Two golden retrievers that had the genetic mutation for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), yet remained healthy, have offered up yet another lead for treating this muscle-wasting disorder. For...

Improved delivery vector better penetrates the inner ear, also restores balance in a mouse model of Usher syndrome Adapted from a Boston Children's Hospital and Massachusetts Eye and Ear press release In the summer of 2015, a team at Boston Children’s...

Newly formed cochlear hair cells contain intricate hair bundles with many stereocilia (critical for sensing sound) and other components that are critical for proper function and neural transmission. Photo courtesy of Will McLean HSCI researchers developed...

Researcher Pandolfi outlines promising paths for cures, including targeted therapy, RNA medicine, and immune therapy By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer In recent years, cancer patients have benefited from a new array of weapons to fight the disease...

Researchers at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), in collaboration with Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), have discovered a new way in which the development of lung cancer can be...

Boehringer Ingelheim today announced it has established a research collaboration with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute’s - Harvard Fibrosis Network to discover new ways of treating fibrotic diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), chronic...

by Haley Bridger, Brigham and Women's Hospital A collaborative Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) co-led team has found proof-of-concept evidence for a potential cancer treatment that...

New study shows that circadian rhythm circuitry is essential for acute myeloid leukemia stem cells but not healthy blood cells, suggesting possible pathways for therapeutics By Veronica Meade-Kelly, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard According to a...

HSCI researchers sampled biopsies from women participating in the Nurses' Health Study. In healthy breast tissue (pictured above), the percentage of cells expressing molecular marker Ki67 (green) and p27 (red) is low. Photo courtesy of Sung Jin Huh...

First demonstration of a cancer arising from a single cell by Nancy Fliesler, Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have, for the first time, visualized the origins of cancer from the first...