[ultimate_heading main_heading=”Latest” alignment=”left” main_heading_font_family=”font_family:|font_call:” main_heading_style=”font-weight:900;” main_heading_font_size=”desktop:44px;” sub_heading_font_family=”font_family:|font_call:” sub_heading_style=”font-weight:700;” sub_heading_font_size=”desktop:20px;” main_heading_margin=”margin-bottom:30px;”]Recent news and stories from the Mass General Research Institute.[/ultimate_heading]
Investigators at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have identified a key weakness in the HIV virus thanks in part to flexible funding provided by philanthropy. Read more
Rudy Tanzi, PhD, believes the key to treating Alzheimer's disease will be earlier detection and treatment guided by individual risk factors and family history. Read more
To understand more about infant immunity and how to enhance it, a research team led by Galit Alter, PhD investigated how certain antibodies are transferred from mother to child during pregnancy. Read more
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 resea Read more
Bone health specialists typically spend their time trying to figure how to slow or stop the bone loss that leads to osteoporosis. What if they could find a new way to stimulate the growth of new bone Read more
Bragi Sveinsson, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow working in the Low-Field MRI and Hyperpolarized Media Laboratory, led by Matthew Rosen, PhD, at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. Read more
Risa Burr, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow conducting cancer research in the Haber/Maheswaran laboratory at the Mass General Center for Cancer Research. She is focused on cell-to-cell communica Read more
In recognition of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we’re recognizing some of the talented postdoctoral researchers who make invaluable contributions to science and medicine at Massachusetts General Read more