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• SomaCode: Getting Cell Therapies Where They Need to Go
  SomaCode is solving the problem of cell therapy delivery by identifying unique molecular “zip codes” for disease and engineering cells to home to those zip codes, making cell therapies safer and more effective.
• Cellular “Backpacks” to Slow Tumor Growth
  Macrophages are the body’s multipurpose defense agents, patrolling for pathogens and engulfing cellular debris, foreign substances, microbes, and even cancer cells. But cancerous tumors have evolved an insidious defense mechanism: they can switch arriving macrophages from an anti-cancer state to a pro-cancer state, in which they help promote the tumor’s growth. As a result, attempts...

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  Northpond Labs funds second Wyss Institute research project
  May 19, 2022
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  Course correction on the path to liquid brain biopsies
  June 21, 2021
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  Turning the problem of cancer metastasis into an opportunity
  November 16, 2020

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  Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Medicine: Emerging Frontiers and Applications
  The Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are delighted to host the 5th annual workshop on “Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Medicine: Emerging Frontiers and Applications” this coming summer. The advances in micro- and nanotechnologies are expected to open up new possibilities and applications in diagnostics, therapy,...

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  SomaCode: GPS for Cell Therapy
  Just like zip codes help drivers navigate to specific addresses using a GPS system, the molecular ‘zip codes’ identified via the SomaCode platform can be used to deliver cell therapies to their specific targets in the human body, increasing the therapies’ efficacy and reducing side effects. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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  Rapid Triage Test for Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis
  There’s a large unmet need for accurate, fast, and inexpensive diagnostics for active tuberculosis (ATB), which claims the lives over a million people per year. A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and several other collaborating institutions have...

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  Kidney Organiods: Flow-Enhanced Vascularization and Maturation In Vitro
  This video explains how the collaborative project created vascularized kidney organoids and how they advance the field of tissue engineering. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University.