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Serious Flu Damage Prevented by Compound that Blocks Unnecessary Cell Death

Scientists test therapeutic strategy that reduces lung injury and inflammation caused by an overactive immune response to the flu virus.

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This Team Fights Viruses that Cause Cancer

In research labs and clinical settings, faculty across Tufts School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences are investigating cancer caused by herpes, HIV, HPV, and other viruses.

From left: Research associate Nora Mineva, Tufts University School of Medicine Professor Gail Sonenshein, and research assistant Stefania Pianetti.

Turning Basic Research into a New Treatment for the Most Aggressive Forms of Breast Cancer

Professor Gail Sonenshein has spent three decades working on breast cancer, developing a therapy to potentially stop the growth and spread of one third of all breast cancer cases

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Restoring a Lost Sense of Smell

Two Tufts researchers have developed and patented an approach that may lead to the ability to recreate tissue in people with anosmia

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2023 Natalie V. Zucker Research Center for Women Scholars Award

Announcing the 2023 recipients of the Natalie V. Zucker Research Center for Women Scholars Award.

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Do Children Inherit Parents’ Stressful Experiences?

Tufts School of Medicine researcher Larry Feig is enrolling participants in a study with Boston IVF to see if the effects of men’s positive or negative experiences can be passed across generations because of altered sperm

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Five Tufts Faculty Named National Academy of Inventors Senior Members

Researchers from across the university received the prestigious honor, which recognizes academic inventors who aspire to make a positive impact on society

Lipids Can Cause Organelle Miscommunication in Neurodegenerative Disease

Tufts School of Medicine researchers find protein mutations associated with brain disorders cause different kinds of molecules to build up where mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum connect and share information

Cultured mouse horizontal basal cells can be activated to differentiate into neurons (red) and non-neuronal cells (gold) of the olfactory epithelium.

Cultured stem cells reconstruct sensory nerve and tissue structure in the nose

Lab-grown olfactory stem cells will enable research into therapies for recovering sense of smell after injury or degeneration

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