Massachusetts Governor Announced More than $21 Million in Tax Incentives for 19 Life Sciences Companies
On Oct. 15, 2024, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced $21.4 million…
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Study Found Persistent Infection Could Explain Long COVID in Some People
On Oct. 9, 2024, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that people with wide-ranging long COVID symptoms…
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
On Oct. 7, 2024, The Nobel Foundation announced that Victor Ambros from Harvard University and Gary Ruvkun from…
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Researchers used AI to Repurpose Existing Drugs for Treatment of Rare Diseases
On Sept. 25, 2024, a study led by scientists at Harvard Medical School announced they had developed an…
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International Study Detected Consciousness in Unresponsive Patients
On Aug. 14, 2024, a study co-led by Mass General Brigham found that one in four patients with…
Lilly opened state-of-the-art research and development center in the Boston Seaport
On Aug. 13, 2024, Eli Lilly announced the opening of the Lilly Seaport Innovation Center (LSC), a research…
In a first, genetically edited pig kidney was transplanted into a human
On Mar. 21, 2024, Harvard Medical School physician-scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital announced they had successfully transplanted a…
Eledon Pharma announced use of tegoprubart in first-ever transplant of genetically modified kidney from a pig to a human
On Mar. 21, 2024, Eledon Pharmaceuticals announced that tegoprubart, the company’s investigational anti-CD40L antibody, was used as a…
MIT and two California universities received $50 million grant for Army research
On Aug. 27, 2003, The Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) announced it was funding a $50 million five…
Eye cell atlas pinpoints where disease-causing genes are expressed, raising hope for inroads against blindness
On Aug. 25, 2023, Harvardï¾’s Center for Brain Science announced the ceation of an eye atlas that pinpoints…
Henrietta Lacks’ family settled lawsuit with biotech company that used her cells without consent
On Aug. 1, 2023, more than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical…
Frequent testing reduced COVID-19 deaths in nursing facilities
On Apr. 4, 2023, NIH-funded research was announced from the University of Rochester and Harvard University that looked…
Computer model predicted dominant SARS-CoV-2 variants
On May 24, 2022, scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the University of Massachusetts…
Depression, loneliness associated with increased hospitalization risk after COVID-19
On May 19, 2022, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that people who reported in a…
CDC and health partners responded to Monkeypox case in the U.S.
On May 18, 2022, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that they were…
USDA confirmed highly pathogenic Avian influenza in Massachusetts, Wyoming, North Carolina, Ohio and North Dakota
On Mar. 30, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agricultureï¾’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed the presence…
International team createed first complete fruit fly cell atlas
On Mar. 9, 2022, Harvard Medical School announced that an international research team had completed an atlas of…
U.S. patent appeal board ruled against University of California in CRISPR interference
On Mar. 1, 2022, the Patent and Trial Appeal Board of the U.S .Patent and Trademark Office issued…
Scientists regrow frogï¾’s lost leg
On Jan. 26, 2022, scientists at Tufts and Harvard Universityï¾’s Wyss Institute reported they were able to trigger…
Resilience and Harvard University announced five-year R&D alliance to incubate new technologies
On Dec. 2, 2021, National Resilience and Harvard University announed they had established a five-year research and development…
NIH study associated COVID-19 surged with mortality increases for patients
On Jul. 8, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that a new study authored by scientists…
Collaboration created worldï¾’s largest browsable resource linking rare protein-coding genetic variants to human disease
On Jul. 8, 2021, access to the worldï¾’s largest browsable resource linking rare protein-coding genetic variants to human…
Large collaboration created cell atlas of COVID-19 pathology
On Apr. 29, 2021, scientists from several hospitals and research centers reported what happens in individual cells of…
Broad Institute expanded COVID-19 viral sequencing efforts for variant surveillance in the Northeast
On Apr. 19, 2021, the Broad Institute of MIT in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and…
New genetic test for heart-attack risk launched for patients at Mass General
On Jan. 27, 2021, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Massachusetts General Hospitalï¾’s Center…
Tonix Pharmaceuticals announced commercial scale vaccine manufacturing facility in Hamilton, Montana
On Dec. 23, 2020, Tonix Pharmaceuticals announced that it had completed the purchase of an approximately 44-acre site…
U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs began COVID-19 vaccinations
On Dec. 14, 2020, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that the New Orleans and Bedford,…
Broad Institute rapid COVID-19 test delivered accurate results with minimal equipment
On Nov. 20, 2020, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced they had developed a…
Ultragenyx announced plans to build large-scale gene therapy manufacturing facility for rare diseases
On Nov. 9, 2020, Ultragenyx announced that it planned to build a new large-scale gene therapy manufacturing facility…
Single-cell study of Ebola highlighted virus’s lethal maneuvers
On Nov. 6, 2020, in a study published in Cell, the researchers identified antiviral defense genes that the…