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Broad Institute WBUR / Apr 22, 2022

About 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine are gathering dust in warehouses of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer as global demand ebbs. | About 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine are gathering dust in warehouses of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer as global demand ebbs.

Broad Institute WBUR / Apr 22, 2022

THE CAPITAL REGION of Finland has eased its mask recommendation, the task force coordinating the regional response to the coronavirus pandemic decided on Wednesday. The task force stated that the recommendation remains in effect in certain settings where avoiding close contact with others is challen…

Broad Institute WBUR / Apr 22, 2022

In the past, most cultural preservation efforts have focused on protecting the tangible manifestations of heritage such as buildings, worship sites and other physical items. But a 2019 U.N. resolution on the rights of Indigenous peoples emphasized the critical loss of Indigenous languages and its im…

Broad Institute WBUR / Apr 22, 2022

Dr. Joseph Betancourt, senior vice president for equity and community health at Massachusetts General Hospital, joined Morning Edition host Rupa Shenoy to talk about the progress, or lack thereof, we’ve made in addressing health disparities since the Unequal Treatment Report was released 20 years ag…

Broad Institute The Japan Times / Apr 21, 2022

– Engineered exosome vaccine construct generated durable, comprehensive immunity in vivo – CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Codiak BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDAK), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on pioneering the development of exosome-based candidates as a n…

Broad Institute The Japan Times / Apr 21, 2022

Jake Broder will organize a reading of his play, UnRavelled, and participate in a discussion about the play with Colin Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics and director of the T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience, on two separate evenings.

Broad Institute The Japan Times / Apr 21, 2022

New evidence from a zebrafish model of epilepsy may help resolve a debate into how seizures originate, according to Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. The findings may also be useful in the discovery and development of future epilepsy drugs.

Broad Institute The Japan Times / Apr 21, 2022

The three-hour CAST-R process reportedly proved to be over ten times faster than the conventional antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) process. CAST-R handled 96 paralleled antibiotic-exposure reactions and produced Raman spectra with quality equivalent to that achieved through the more time-cons…