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Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles that can more efficiently ...

Rapid precision run-on sequencing (rPRO-seq) may help doctors understand disease states and treatment response in real time.

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The critical role that telomeres play in aging and age-related disease has long made them a target of research. Recent work at Boston Children's Hospital to engineer synthetic telomerase RNA to ...

Another Massachusetts biotech has reached the end of the road. | Another Massachusetts biotech has reached the end of the road. NextRNA Therapeutics has begun winding down operations with a “heavy ...

The quest for a vaccine against HIV has been going on for about 40 years — almost as long as the virus that causes AIDS has ...

More than four years ago, President Donald Trump heralded the arrival of safe and effective messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines for COVID-19. He called them “a monumental national achievement” and “one of ...