When it comes to sleep, fruit flies are a lot like people. They sleep at night, caffeine keeps them awake and they even get insomnia. Those similarities, along with scientists’ detailed knowledge of the genes and brain structure of Drosophila melanogaster, have made the fruit fly extremely valuable to sleep researchers. Dragana Rogulja, assistant professor of neurobiology, is quoted.
Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, which collaborate locally to provide inpatient cancer treatment and radiation therapy, have signed an agreement with Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre to bring radiation therapy and experts in radiation to Bermuda. Daphne Haas-Kogan, professor of radiation oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Gilbert Mudge, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are quoted.
A stark gender gap persists at Boston’s big biomedical research institutions, where young male scientists receive more than twice as much in funding to support their work as female colleagues, according to a study. Susan Slaugenhaupt, professor of neurology, and Anne Klibanski, professor of medicine, both at Massachusetts General Hospital, are quoted.
Hormone therapy is a tangled mess of risks, benefits and side effects that even doctors have difficulty unraveling. JoAnn Manson, professor of women’s health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Anupam Jena, associate professor of health care policy, is interviewed on a study of women becoming medical professors, of which he is the lead author.
Cellular clocks are almost everywhere. Clues to how they work are coming from the places that they’re not. Charles Weitz, Harvard Medical School professor of neurobiology, is quoted.
