South Coast Working text over an image of a fishing boat in the Boston Harbor “South Coast Working” is a new podcast from the Arnold M. Dubin Labor Education Center at UMass Dartmouth that informs…, Wilson, . “It’s been critical to learn from the expertise of our faculty and the enthusiasm and skills of our students.” The series premiered with two episodes. The first examined the introduction of…
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STEM Network logo Southeastern Massachusetts STEM Network will host two, virtual events focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in August 2021. With these programs, the Network endeavors to…
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AMHERST, Mass. – We’re all familiar with the startle reflex – that sudden, uncontrollable jerk that occurs when we’re surprised by a noise or other unexpected stimulus. But the brain also has an…
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AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Jim Kurose , Distinguished University Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences and associate chancellor for…
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UMass Medical School’s principal site investigator for Moderna’s TeenCOVE and KidCOVE mRNA COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials said that trial sites are on track to expand the number of children in…
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UMass Medical School researchers Guangping Gao, PhD, and Dan Wang, PhD, are working with ASC Therapeutics, a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing in-vivo gene replacement, gene editing…
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A School of Medicine student introduced to UMass Medical School through the Worcester Pipeline Collaborative is now in his second year at UMMS and remains very involved in the community of his…
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Assoc. Prof. of Nursing Ainat Koren speaking with two students in class Faculty in the Nursing landing page Solomont School of Nursing are quickly assembling a team of nurses and nursing students…
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The 125th running of the Boston Marathon on Oct. 11 will have special significance for five runners raising money for UMass Medical School’s ALS Cellucci Fund. “This is a monumental year because it…
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"Warning Tick Habitat" sign hangs on a tree post Lyme disease has become an insidious epidemic in the United States. Caused by bacteria transmitted through the bite of an infected tick, it can lead…, A vaccine’s cautionary tale, In 1998, the FDA approved a Lyme vaccine composed of protein antigens from the surface of the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi . A vaccine works by introducing proteins from the disease-causing…, A different approach, Unlike a vaccine, Lyme PrEP uses a single human antibody, or blood protein, to kill the bacteria in the tick’s gut while the tick drinks its victim’s blood, before the bacteria can get into the human…
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