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The second annual Catalyst Symposium, sponsored by the Department of Biology and Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, invited postdocs from across the country to meet with faculty, present their work to the MIT community, and build relationships.
Photograph by Peter Vanderwarker Town and Gown The section on capital projects in the 2020 edition of Harvard’s annual “Town Gown Report” to the City of Cambridge—in recent years chock-full of construction work planned or in progress, thanks to The Harvard Campaign and continuing programs like House renewal—suddenly reflects a far narrower pipeline. Beyond the second and third stages of the Adams House renewal, nothing is on the horizon. This reflects both Harvard’s rotation toward Allston and the severe reduction in capital spending in response to the pandemic’s financial i...
The gut’s immune system not only defends against pathogens but also regulates the intake of nutrients, research in mice finds. The small intestine is ground zero for survival of animals. It is responsible for absorbing the nutrients crucial to life, and it wards off toxic chemicals and life-threatening bacteria. In a new study in the journal Science, researchers report the critical role that the gut’s immune system plays in these key processes. The findings may provide insights into origins of metabolic disease and malnutrition that are common in some regions of the world. “We were sur...
E-Mail IMAGE: HHMI announces the selection of 21 exceptional early career scientists as 2020 Hanna Gray Fellows to support diversity in biomedical research. The 2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition will... view more Credit: HHMI Twenty-one outstanding scientists. Eight years of financial support. One tight-knit community. Today, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced the selection of the 2020 Hanna Gray Fellows, a cohort of 21 early career researchers who are taking on some of the biggest challenges in the life sciences, such as understanding the innerwork...
E-Mail Food allergies have been increasing dramatically across the developed world for more than 30 years. For instance, as many as 8% of children in the U.S. now experience potentially lethal immune system responses to such foods as milk, tree nuts, fish and shellfish. But scientists have struggled to explain why that is. A prevailing theory has been that food allergies arise because of an absence of natural pathogens such as parasites in the modern environment, which in turn makes the part of the immune system that evolved to deal with such natural threats hypersensitive to certain foods....