CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 10 (TNSJou) -- The Broad Institute issued the following research roundup: Welcome to the July 9, 2021 installment of Research Roundup, a recurring snapshot of recent studies published by scientists at the Broad Institute and their collaborators. A COVID detector you can wear By weaving biological circuits into clothing, researchers can make wearable sensors for monitoring a person's health or detecting pathogens or toxins. As a proof of concept, a team led by Pe  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 10 (TNSGra) -- The Boston Foundation issued the following news release: The Equality Fund at the Boston Foundation is pleased to announce that the Fund awarded $145,000 to 30 organizations in its 2021 round of grants. The grantees were recognized during the Equality Fund's Annual Pride Event. In addition, the Fund recognized five new members to the Equality Fund Advisory Committee, who will help oversee the Fund's grantmaking and other efforts. "At a time when LGBTQ  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news : By Terri Moon Cronk Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks is on a trip to New England to assess the Defense Department's innovation and modernization efforts and partners' capabilities to better enable the warfighter with the latest technology. The deputy secretary began her trip July 8 at Bath Iron Works in Brunswick, Maine, where she met with troops and toured the USS Daniel Inouye, an Arleigh Burke-class  more

BOSTON, July 10 -- The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute issued the following news release: The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center is awarding Dana-Farber Cancer Institute a $1.82 million grant titled, Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics Solutions for Highly Scalable Integrated OMics: Charting Metabolic Contributions to Disease Development and Therapeutic Outcomes. This award will help support a new facility at Dana-Farber that will provide cutting-edge metabolomics tools for scientists, including a uniq  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following readout: On Thursday, July 8, the U.S. Small Business Administration and Public Private Strategies Institute hosted a New England Region (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont) briefing for small business owners on COVID-19 recovery as part of the "Getting Back on Track: Help is Here" webinar series. Nearly 1,000 participants joined the livestream briefing (https://www.facebook.com/P  more