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  • New type of virus found in the ocean

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    January 24, 2018
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    The unusial characteristics of these abundant, bacteria-killing viruses could lead to evolutionary insights. A type of virus that dominates water samples taken from the world’s oceans has long escaped analysis because it has characteristics that standard tests can’t detect. However, researchers at MIT and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have now managed to isolate…

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  • $3.2 Million Grant to JAX Scientist for Epigenetic Studies to Advance Precision Medicine

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    January 9, 2018
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    CSB Alum in the News A grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to Jackson Laboratory (JAX) Assistant Professor Albert Cheng, Ph.D., totaling $3,240,117 over five years, will fund the creation of a molecular “toolkit” to explore the effects of epigenetic modifications — chemical changes to DNA and histone proteins that affect how genes are…

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  • Biologists’ new peptide could fight many cancers

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    January 15, 2018
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    Drug that targets a key cancer protein could combat leukemia and other types of cancer.  MIT biologists have designed a new peptide that can disrupt a key protein that many types of cancers, including some forms of lymphoma, leukemia, and breast cancer, need to survive. The new peptide targets a protein called Mcl-1, which helps…

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