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Posts by Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck

Meet Seven Mass General Brigham Researchers Working to Develop New Therapies and Treatments for Cancer  

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | September 24, 2025

Learn more about their unique approaches to improving care for cancer patients.

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Behind the Complex Quest to Create Living Bacterial “Drugs” for Allergies, Infections and Chronic Disease

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | September 18, 2025
Illustration of the gut microbiome

Researchers are using advanced technologies to better understand how bacteria interact in the gut and develop new therapies.

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How One Doctor is Helping to Shift the Culture of Silence on Physician Mental Health

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | August 21, 2025
Image of a stressed out doctor sitting on the steps.

What happens when the culture that trains physicians to suppress emotions starts to affect their own well-being?

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How Telehealth Is Helping to Connect Individuals Experiencing Homelessness to Crucial Health Services

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | August 11, 2025
Dr. Koh and members of the street team on their way to treat patients in the homeless community last winter

Despite early concerns, pivoting to telehealth during the COVID-190 pandemic was effective for physicians and patients alike.

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How a Scientist Followed Curiosity (and Love) to Build an Innovative Tool to Track Changes in the Gut Microbiome

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | August 4, 2025

Developed by scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, ChronoStrain is a cutting-edge tool that tracks changes in bacterial populations over time.

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Why Do Symptoms Linger in Some People After an Infection? A Conversation on Post-Acute Infection Syndromes

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | August 1, 2025

Long COVID and ME/CFS are part of a growing group of post-infection illnesses affecting millions worldwide.

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Why Do We Get Allergies? Mass General Brigham Scientist Explains the Surprising Science Behind the Itch

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | July 28, 2025

Despite how common they are, we still don’t fully understand why some people develop allergies while others don’t.

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Five Questions on Vitamins and Human Health that Mass General Brigham Researchers are Trying to Answer

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | June 20, 2025

Researchers are using science-backed methods to see what supplements are good for human health and which may not be effective.

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Congratulations to the 2025 Class of the Bridging Academia and Industry Education Program

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | May 28, 2025

The program seeks to create a shared culture of “innovation through collaboration” among investigators from academia and industry.

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Five Animal Superpowers that Researchers are Working to Adapt for Human Health

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | May 15, 2025

Finding ways to help humans mimic some of these animal superpowers could help scientists solve some of medicine’s biggest mysteries.

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