It’s a longstanding question in biology: How do cells know when to progress through the cell cycle? A team of MIT and HMS researchers has precisely measured the growth rates of single cells, allowing them to answer that fundamental question. HMS authors are: Amit Tzur, research fellow in systems biology; Paul Jorgensen, a former HMS postdoc; and Marc Kirschner, the John Franklin Enders University Professor of Systems Biology and chair of the Department of Systems Biology.
Weight training alone or with aerobic exercise may lower diabetes risk in men, Harvard University research showed, while a German study found that physical activity keeps those with the disease alive longer. Walter Willett, chair of the Department of Nutrition at HSPH, is an author on the Harvard study.
Trustees at Signature Healthcare in Brockton have decided to open exclusive talks with Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center about a clinical affiliation, a move that would result in Signature dropping its two-year-old partnership with Tufts Medical Center.
A breast cancer awareness campaign by the research advocacy group Susan G. Komen for the Cure overstated the benefit that mammograms have on survival rates of women with breast cancer, researchers say in a new editorial. Daniel Kopans, HMS professor of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
A state superior court judge has thrown out a complaint lodged by Joseph Grocela, HMS assistant professor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, who challenged the hospital’s policy denying him rights to inventions he discovered on his own time at home.
