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May 21, 2024
New research exploring the genome of the fly-infecting fungus Entomophthora muscae reveals it has one of the largest known genomes in the fungal kingdom. The fungus is best known for turning its insect victims into “zombies,” forcing the flies to climb up high, and then exploding out of their bodies.
Original article in: eLife >
June 15, 2022
Boston Children's Hospital Answer article on new research from Christopher A. Walsh and colleagues, co-first authors August Yue Huang and Michael B. Miller, revealing that that people with Alzheimer’s have an abundance of newly acquired mutations in their neurons — more than people of the same age without Alzheimer’s, and enough to disable genes important to brain function.
Original article in: Nature >
July 7, 2021
Harvard Gazette article on new research from the lab of Paola Arlotta and colleagues at the Broad Institute, co-first authors Daniela Di Bella and Ehsan Habibi, combining single-cell genomic technologies to create an atlas for studying cellular diversification in the developing mouse cortex.
Original article in: Nature >
November 13, 2020
Klaus Schmitz and Kyriacos Markianos share a powerful method for identifying important noncoding regions in the human genome—revealing the potential significance of gene regulation in cognitive and social function.
Original article in: Scientific Reports >
September 8, 2020
Will Renthal & Ivan Tochitsky share recent work from Renthal & Woolf labs, suggesting that transcription factors induced early after peripheral nerve injury confer the cellular plasticity required for damaged sensory neurons to regenerate their axons
Original article in: Neuron >
September 2, 2020
Shen-Bin Liu shares new research from the lab of Qiufu Ma and colleagues on the neurobiology of acupuncture, suggesting it may help treat fatal systemic inflammation in patients with severe infections or for those receiving immune therapy.
Original article in: Neuron >
August 24, 2020
Harvard Gazette article recapping a recent Zoom seminar with author and Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer and Professor of the Practice of Non-Fiction, Michael Pollan discusses his latest work on the world’s most-used psychoactive substance.
Original article in: Neuron >
August 24, 2020
HMS News article on new research from the labs of Isaac Kohane and colleagues, co-first authors Yuan Luo and Alal Eran, revealing a subtype of autism associated with lipid abnormalities.
Original article in: Nature Medicine >
July 9, 2020
A new study from the labs of David Ginty, Jan Drugowitsch, Christopher Harvey, & Wade Regehr (co-first authors Nicole Neubarth, Alan Emanuel, & Yin Liu) used mouse genetic tools to gain new insights into the anatomy & function of Meissner corpuscles.
Original article in: Science >
June 29, 2020
New research from the lab of Michael Greenberg, co-first authors Sinisa Hrvatin and Senmiao Sun, discovering the neurons that control hibernation-like behaviors in mice.
Original article in: Nature >
June 23, 2020
BCH Discoveries article on new research from the labs of Jeffrey Holt, David Liu, & colleagues at the Broad and MIT (co-first authors Wei-Hsi Yeh & Olga Shubina-Oleinik). They used a new genetic engineering technique to restore hearing in deaf mice.
Original article in: Nature >
June 18, 2020
Harvard Medicine Magazine article sharing the perspectives of Xavier du Maine and four other HMS students on how the 2020 pandemic has affected their lives and research.
Original article in: Nature >
May 27, 2020
New findings by Mike Wallace and colleagues in the Sabatini lab suggest that the habenula contains distinct sub-circuits that control two neuromodulatory centers important for mood, motivation, and depression.
Original article in: eLife >
January 29, 2019
Harvard Gazette article highlighting a large international genetic study from the teams of Michael Weedon (University of Exeter), Richa Saxena (MGH), and colleagues (co-lead authors Samuel Jones and Jacqueline Lane), shedding new light on the body clock and its links to mental health.
Original article in: Nature Communications >
January 23, 2019
HMS News article on new research from the lab of Francisco Quintana (BWH) on the role of environmental exposures in neurologic disease.
Original article in: Cell >