Tag: James E. Bradner

  • Nation & World

    Target: New ways to battle disease

    “The Road to Vital Therapy,” part of the Broad’s Institute’s midsummer science lecture series, discussed how researchers are tapping the human genome, hoping to create effective treatments for vexing afflictions.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Disrupting a cancer gene

    Scientists at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have successfully disrupted the function of a cancer gene involved in the formation of most human tumors by tampering with the gene’s “on” switch and growth signals, rather than targeting the gene itself.

    3 minutes