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Diagram showing immunotherapy treatments for cancer with biomaterials at different stages of development

Engineering Immunotherapy

March 6, 2020

Designing new biomaterial-inspired approaches for cancer treatments

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Stopping the Second Hit

March 4, 2020

Preclinical research suggests way to intervene early in acute myeloid leukemia

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Donating Life

December 5, 2019

HMS student’s heart transplant highlights importance of organ donation

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Next-Gen Medicine

November 25, 2019

Harvard, MIT, teaching hospitals team up with industry partners to launch new center for…

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Major Grant for Study of Cell Fate in Cancer

October 25, 2019

Illuminating new pathways for treatment of cancer

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A New Actor in Cancer Immunity

October 23, 2019

New immune-regulatory gene emerges as a lead actor in cancer immunity

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Caught in the Act

October 23, 2019

First snapshots of cancer protein B-Raf illuminate basic biology, drug design

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William Kaelin wins Nobel Prize — Photo Gallery

October 7, 2019

Press conference with William Kaelin, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine

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HMS Professor Kaelin wins Nobel in Physiology or Medicine

October 7, 2019

William Kaelin recognized for work on how cells adapt to oxygen availability

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Action Heroes of DNA Repair

October 2, 2019

From “Robocop” to the “Buffybot,” custom-built microscopes illuminate cancer, gene editing

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Sneaky Spread

September 12, 2019

How breast cancer uses exosomes to breach the blood-brain barrier

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Raised Risk

August 12, 2019

Rare, inherited gene mutation raises risk of pancreatic cancer, other malignancies

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