2023

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 story has been modified from an article in the Harvard Gazette. Read the original story here. Today, Jason Buenrostro, HSCI Principal Faculty member and an associate professor in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology...

Brown adipocytes are specialized cells that can use energy to produce heat. This property makes them attractive tools for the treatment of diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes. Until recently, this therapeutic potential was constrained by limited...

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...

Just a few thousand neurons orchestrate evolutionarily advanced forelimb and digit dexterity. By Alice McCarthy One of the critical elements guiding the evolutionary advancement of brains, especially as brains have become super capable in mammals, is how...

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...