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News / 11.29.22
Launch of the Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology
Nominations are now open for the first award of the Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology, which recognizes novel technologies that have improved human health.Read more
Meredith Fedorovsky
News / 11.22.22
Gene-delivering viruses reach the brain in a step toward gene therapy for neurological diseases
Researchers have engineered a family of adeno-associated viral vectors that cross the blood-brain barrier in primate models.Read more
Alex Ritter, Jennifer Lippincott Schwartz and Gillian Griffiths, National Institutes of Health
News / 11.21.22
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center announces data science challenge to harness machine learning for cancer immunotherapy
Challenge participants will propose genetic changes to T cells that could make them better at killing cancer cells. The most promising submissions will be tested out in the lab.Read more
Sara Jane Cromer
Blog / 11.14.22
#WhyIScience Q&A: An endocrinologist and clinical researcher explores how racism and other social factors affect patients with type 2 diabetes
Sara Jane Cromer talks about the importance of including social determinants of health in research.Read more
Luke Funk
News / 11.7.22
Scientists unveil the functional landscape of essential genes
Researchers harness new pooled, image-based screening method to probe the functions of over 5,000 genes that human cells require to surviveRead more