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MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart has announced three Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants to support bold research projects across diverse areas of study including biology, engineering, and the humanities. The three grants honor the visionary and bold

MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart announced three Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants to support bold research projects across diverse areas of study including biology, engineering, and the humanities.

MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart announced three Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants to support bold research projects across diverse areas of study including biology, engineering, and the humanities.

Two half-brothers share how DNA testing brought them together. Then, we turn to a bioethicist to look broadly at the gray areas of mail-in genetic tests.

Plus, what if you took a home DNA test and found out that you had a sibling you never knew about? Two Cambridge half-brothers tell us their amazing story.

Reginald DesRoches will succeed David Leebron as president of Rice University.

Immunotherapy is a promising strategy to treat cancer by stimulating the body's own immune system to destroy tumor cells, but it only works for a handful of cancers.

MIT researchers have discovered a new way to jump-start the immune system to attack tumors, which could allow cancer immunotherapy to be used against more types of cancer.

Scientists at the MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine developed a method for removing tumor cells, treating them with chemotherapy and then combining them with checkpoint-inhibiting drugs to stimulate an immune attack against cancer. In mouse models of melanoma and breast cancer, the technique eliminated 40% of tumors, they reported.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Immunotherapy is a promising strategy to treat cancer by stimulating the body’s own immune system to destroy tumor cells, but it only