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  • Exploring the many roles of mucus

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    April 4, 2018
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    Katharina Ribbeck studies the sticky substance to uncover its impacts on health and disease. In 2007, Katharina Ribbeck spent a year as a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School. While there, she heard about a fellowship offered at Harvard that would provide the recipient with a lab, startup funding, and status as an independent investigator.…

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  • Researchers identify important role for gene in 16p11.2 deletion autism

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    March 21, 2018
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    Study finds that major vault protein is needed for homeostatic plasticity. In a new study of one of the most common genetic causes of autism, neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have identified a molecular mechanism that appears to undermine the ability of neurons in affected mice to properly incorporate changes driven…

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  • Timothy Lu seeks to combat disease by reprogramming biological systems

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    March 4, 2018
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    Synthetic Biologist hopes to develop treatments for cancer and other diseases. In high school and college, Timothy Lu spent a lot of time programming computers. But as his college graduation approached, he turned his attention toward programming biological systems. The field of synthetic biology was just beginning to emerge, and he wanted to be part…

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