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"Moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it is unlawful and beyond the government’s authority." - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/Complain421t
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The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. hrvd.me/ResearchFunding25t
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👃 Your nose is more than a sense organ—it’s a decision-maker for your immune system.
Meet José Ordovás-Montañés, a Pew biomedical scholar, studying how immune cells in the nose react to viruses, which could shape our health and possibly future treatments.
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New findings reveal surprising new details about how an inherited genetic mutation causes Huntington’s disease, transforming understanding of the disorder. broad.io/HDNews
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Scientists built a massive, diverse library of potential molecular glues that might stabilize a target protein and reverse its disease-causing effects. In it, they found one that targets a Crohn’s risk factor and reverses its effects on the cell. broad.io/CIPs-News
ALT A graphical illustration of proteins and small molecules interacting, showing a larger protein in purple and a smaller one in dark green bound to a red hexagon and a light blue triangle element, with a short red double helix attached.
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Congratulations to the 2024 medicine laureates!
Watch the very moment Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun received their Nobel Prize diplomas and medals.
#NobelPrize
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The 2024 Nobel Prize laureates have arrived in Stockholm!
This morning our new laureates arrived at the Nobel Prize Museum where they were welcomed into the Nobel Prize family.
Take a look at some pictures from the day:
1) Chemistry laureate Demis Hassabis arrives at the Nobel Prize Museum
2) New laureates are all asked to sign a chair at the museum. Literature laureate Han Kang holds up the chair bearing her signature as well as previous literature laureates Annie Ernaux and Jon Fosse.
3) This year's laureates Demis Hassabis, David Baker, Gary Ruvkun, Victor Ambros and Han Kang share a joke.
4) Medicine laureate Gary Ruvkun with his signed chair, also showing the signatures of his co-laureate Victor Ambros and 2012 medicine laureates Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon.
We'll be sharing more moments with our laureates in the coming days.
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I could have never imagined being named #ForbesUnder30 at the start of this journey.
I am deeply thankful to my mentors @bloodgenes and @eric_lander, family, friends, and collaborators.
Honored to join this year’s list: forbes.com/30-under-30/2025/…
@ForbesUnder30 @Forbes
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Last night, Boston's Prudential building lit up “Broad blue” for our 20th anniversary! We're proud to be part of the Massachusetts life sciences ecosystem, making an impact locally and globally. Thank you to this amazing community for 20+ years of collaboration and inspiration!
ALT Boston's Prudential building lit up with blue
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On October 16, 1846, Mass General hosted the first successful public demonstration of ether as a surgical anesthetic. This groundbreaking event is commemorated each year as a significant milestone in our hospital’s history.
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“The call from Stockholm is mythic in the world of science.”
New medicine laureate Gary Ruvkun has received a prank call or two in the past, but today’s was genuine. We talked to him minutes after he heard the news of his #NobelPrize.
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Mass General and @harvardmed Investigator Gary Ruvkun, PhD, has won the 2024 @NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine. He is honored for his discovery of small regulatory RNAs. Congratulations! Learn more: spklr.io/6019vzIW
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The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine focuses on the discovery of a vital regulatory mechanism used in cells to control gene activity. Genetic information flows from DNA to messenger RNA (mRNA), via a process called transcription, and then on to the cellular machinery for protein production. There, mRNAs are translated so that proteins are made according to the genetic instructions stored in DNA. Since the mid-20th century, several of the most fundamental scientific discoveries have explained how these processes work.
In 1993, this year's Nobel Prize laureates published unexpected findings describing a new level of gene regulation, which turned out to be highly significant and conserved throughout evolution. They discovered microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation.
Read more: bit.ly/4dlPE6f
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This year’s medicine laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun studied a relatively unassuming 1 mm long roundworm, C. elegans.
Despite its small size, C. elegans possesses many specialised cell types such as nerve and muscle cells also found in larger, more complex animals, making it a useful model for investigating how tissues develop and mature in multicellular organisms.
Read how the 2024 medicine laureates’ investigations into C. elegans revealed an entirely new dimension to gene regulation: bit.ly/4dlPE6f
#NobelPrize
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As a MD/PhD candidate at @harvardmed and Harvard Griffin GSAS, Dan Michelson’s findings deepen our understanding of autoimmune diseases with implications for therapies that strengthen the immune system and treat cancer.
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An #AI Dr. House? Meet TxGNN, an AI tool developed by @marinkazitnik and team that distills medical knowledge graphs to suggest treatments for rare diseases. And like Dr. House, the AI explains its reasoning!
@DrYohanJohn breaks it down here: bit.ly/4gHT3PJ
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Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD, from @harvardmed, joined JAMA EIC @KBibbinsDomingo to discuss the potential for AI-based psychiatric tools that harness data to track depression indicators in real time or predict effects of adverse childhood experiences. #JAMAai
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Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a kidney from a genetically engineered pig into the body of a Weymouth man, the first time an animal kidney has been transplanted into a living person. trib.al/j1RSqUz
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Scientists at BIDMC performed a first-of-its-kind analysis of colorectal tumors and colorectal cancers that spread to the liver, providing new insights for a new era of personalized medicine.
Learn more⤵️
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The Harvard Corporation: “In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay.” hrvd.me/Corp2023t
