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How One Mass General Brigham Surgeon Is Making Training Safer During Pregnancy

By Randy Young | Surgery, Women in Science | 0 comment | 15 May, 2026 | 0

Erica Rangel is an advocate for female surgeons working to balance the dual demands of career and family.

From Blueprint to Beating: How 3D Bioprinting Is Advancing Heart Research at Mass General Brigham

By Nicoletta Valenzano, MPH | Surgery | 0 comment | 14 May, 2026 | 0

What if doctors could one day print living tissue the way we print documents—on demand, precisely shaped and tailored to each patient? 

Researchers Unplugged: Meet the Mass General Brigham Surgeon Who is Also a Printmaking Artist

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | Researchers Unplugged, Surgery | 0 comment | 12 May, 2026 | 0

Surgical resident Maya Srinivasan, MD, has been integrating art into medical education since she was a student in medical school.

How A Small Fish Could Lead to Better Strategies to Repair Tendon Tears

By Brian Burns | MGH Research Scholars, Surgery | 0 comment | 24 October, 2023 | 0

Mass General researcher Jenna Galloway, PhD, is using zebrafish models to find new treatment strategies for tendon injuries.

Mass General for Children Research Team is Working to Avoid the Need for Surgery in Patients with Hirschsprung Disease

By Marcela Quintanilla-Dieck | Pediatrics, Surgery | 0 comment | 2 August, 2023 | 0

Allan Goldstein, MD, and team are developing new treatment strategies for Hirschprung disease that can reduce the need for invasive surgery.

Neurosurgery Researcher Working to Identify New Treatments for Children with Traumatic Brain Injuries

By Kyle Banker | Neurology, Surgery | 0 comment | 15 June, 2023 | 0

There are currently no therapeutics to treat children with traumatic brain injuries. How one Mass General researcher is working to change that.

Heart Health Month: Learn about the Life of a Cardiac Surgeon

By Kyle Banker | Cardiology, Medicine, Surgery | 0 comment | 15 February, 2023 | 0

For our second heart health month blog, Asishana Osho, MD, MPH, from the Mass General Heart Center answers questions about his passion and work as a cardiac surgeon.

Biopreservation Could Revolutionize the Future of Medicine—How Mass General Researchers are Helping Us Get There

By Brian Burns | Medicine, Surgery | 0 comment | 22 October, 2020 | 0

Mass General is part of a multicenter research effort to overcome key challenges in the long term preservation and reuse of organs, cells, tissues and more.

Could Smartphones Give Surgeons A Better Sense of What Postoperative Recovery Looks Like?

By Brian Burns | Surgery | 0 comment | 7 January, 2020 | 0

Researchers are hoping that data on patient activity levels post-surgery that is collected via smartphones will help them better understand what the recovery process looks like.

Researchers Develop “Supercool” Organ Preservation Technique to Give Clinicians and Recipients More Time for Transplants

By Gloria Rosado | Surgery | 0 comment | 26 September, 2019 | 0

For the first time, researchers successfully “supercooled” a human liver and returned it back to normal body temperatures without any ice injury. Using this supercooling preservation method, the research team, led by Reinier de Vries, MD, were able to triple the shelf-life of human livers from about nine hours to 27 hours.

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