CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * A better DNA material for genetic medicine * To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most genetic medicine uses viruses or double-stranded DNA to deliver genetic information to target cells. DNA in its traditional double helix form can lead to toxic immune stimulation and be difficult to package into cell more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Applied Therapeutics Announced Sales Agreement to Cycle Group * Ropes & Gray advised Applied Therapeutics (Nasdaq: APLT) in an agreement to be acquired by Cycle Group Holdings Limited. The transaction was announced on December 11 and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026. Under the agreement, Cycle will initiate a tender offer to purchase all outstanding share more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2025: * * * Banking Committee Democrats Call for Overdue, Statutorily Required Hearing of Trump's Prudential Regulators Before the End of Year Yesterday, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Jack Reed (D-RI), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 13 (NSrep) -- Boston Consulting Group, a management consulting firm, presented the following news release on Dec. 12, 2025: * * * Asia-Pacific Shifts from Growth to Long-Term Value Creation as Markets Mature * BCG Analysis Finds Asia-Pacific Companies Are Prioritizing Governance, Strategic Focus, and Investor Alignment * India Cements Position as the World's Best-Performing Capital Market Over the Past Decade * Australia Shows Long-Term Consistency, China and Sou more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 13 (TNSrpt) -- Boston Consulting Group, a management consulting firm, presented the following news release: * * * US Luxury and Exotic Car Market Set to Reach Up to $215 Billion by 2035--Nearly Twice Its Current Size * New BCG and duPont REGISTRY Study Explores How Luxury Car Brands Can Adapt to Fading Loyalty, Changing Digital Habits, and Shifting Ownership Expectations * Secondary Market for Luxury and Exotic Vehicles Projected to Grow 1.5x Faster Than New Sales more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 [Category: BizFinancial Services] -- Circle Internet Financial, a financial technology firm, issued the following news release: * * * Circle Receives Conditional Approval from OCC for National Trust Charter * Conditional approval marks key milestone toward GENIUS Act compliance and strengthens USDC infrastructure NEW YORK December 12, 2025 Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL), one of the world's leading internet financial platform companies, today announc more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 [Category: BizHospital] -- Mass General Brigham issued the following news release: * * * Clinical Trial Finds Cannabis Use Not a Barrier to Quitting Nicotine Vaping * Mass General Brigham researchers hope their findings can inform public health messaging around vaping cessation moving forward. Adolescent and young adult nicotine vaping has become an urgent public health concern, as 2024 marked the first year that nicotine vaping was the most initiated drug. T more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * Combined Oral Contraceptive Use Among People with Migraine with Aura Persists, Despite Cautions *. Epidemiology A new study found that a sizable minority of people with migraine with aura still receive prescriptions for estrogen-containing birth control pills and hormone therapy, despite treatment contraindications or cautions related to stroke risk. Current medical guideline more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 13 (TNSjou) -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center issued the following news: * * * Decoding Long COVID: Investigators Reveal Why the Body Keeps Fighting the War New BIDMC Study Reveals Persistent Immune Activation and Paths to Treatment * A new study from investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) sheds light on why some people never fully recover from COVID-19. In a study analyzing blood samples from more than 140 participants, scientists l more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts posted the following news release: * * * Dominican National Sentenced for Dealing Fentanyl * BOSTON - A Dominican national unlawfully residing in Lawrence has been sentenced in federal court in Boston on drug distribution charges. Hector Santana Guzman, a/k/a "DJ Black," 34, was sentenced on Dec. 10, 2025 by United States District Judge Patti B. Saris to 30 months in prison, to be followed b more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Enabling small language models to solve complex reasoning tasks * As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that human-like reasoning is around the corner. In reality, they still trail us by a wide margin on complex tasks. Try playing Sudoku with one, for instance, where you fill in numbers one through nine i more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 [Category: Environment] -- The Union of Concerned Scientists posted the following news release: * * * FEMA Review Council Meeting Cancelled Signaling Disaster for FEMA May Have Only Just Begun * The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) review council was slated to vote today on a draft report recommending changes to the agency, but the meeting was unexpectedly cancelled at the last minute after details of the draft report were leaked. The Union of Conc more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts posted the following news release: * * * Former Technology Company Executives Charged with Defrauding Boston Private Equity Firm of $20 Million * BOSTON - The former Chief Executive Officer and Senior Vice President of Mozaic Payment System, Inc. have been charged with defrauding a Boston-based investment firm out of $20 million in equity funding. Marcus Cobb, 48, and Rachel Knepp, 39, both  more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 [Category: Media] -- GBH, a multiplatform creator for public media, issued the following news release: * * * GBH Awards Fellowships to Eight Outstanding Producers * Boston, Mass. - Dec. 12, 2025 - Boston public media producer GBH has awarded fellowships to eight outstanding producers, recognizing excellence, potential, and creativity. The recipients of the 2026 Fellowship Awards are Aidan Connelly, Elizabeth Gardner, Christina Monnen, and Erin Texeira for the B more PR

DEDHAM, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 [Category: BizConsulting] -- The Arc Advisory Group issued the following news release: * * * Global Megatrends and Digitalization Drive the Discrete Automation Market * According to ARC Advisory Group's new research, the automation expenditure for discrete industries in 2023 surged as suppliers continued to convert large backlogs generated by purchases in 2022 and the improved availability of critical components. After a strong start, demand began to drop in th more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * In Gratitude and Service to Public Health *. As we end 2025, Dean Adnan Hyder reflects on his first semester at BU, highlights the new "Teaching Public Health" platform, and shares a preview of SPH's forthcoming 50th anniversary. Dear Colleagues, It is hard to believe that it has been four months since I've had the great honor to join the Boston University School of Public He more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Justice Department Sues Four Additional States and One Locality for Failure to Comply with Federal Elections Laws * Today, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced it has filed federal lawsuits against four states Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Nevada for failure to produce their statewide voter registration lists upon request. This brings the Justice Department's nationwide t more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Making clean energy investments more successful * Governments and companies constantly face decisions about how to allocate finite amounts of money to clean energy technologies that can make a difference to the world's climate, its economies, and to society as a whole. The process is inherently uncertain, but research has been shown to help predict which technologies will be most s more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 [Category: BizHospital] -- Mass General Brigham issued the following news release: * * * Mass General Brigham Announces New AI Company to Accelerate Clinical Trial Screening and Patient Recruitment * 'AIwithCare' will feature a software platform that uses generative AI to screen patients for clinical trial eligibility. The AI tool, RECTIFIER, was shown in recent research to be highly efficient at enrolling eligible patients. Rapid, accurate and cost-effective m more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts posted the following news release: * * * Med Spa Owner Agrees to Plead Guilty to Performing Illegal Injections Using Unapproved Prescription Drugs * BOSTON - A Quincy man has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty to allegedly injecting clients of his business, Rodrigo Beauty Inc., with unapproved botulinum toxin obtained from illegitimate sources outside the United States, resulting in n more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * MIT HEALS leadership charts a bold path for convergence in health and life sciences * In February, President Sally Kornbluth announced the appointment of Professor Angela Koehler as faculty director of the MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS), with professors Iain Cheeseman and Katharina Ribbeck as associate directors. Since then, the leadership team has moved qui more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 [Category: BizHospital] -- The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute issued the following news release: * * * Mobile Health Tool Helps Improve Quality of Life For Young Breast Cancer Survivors * Adolescent and young adult breast cancer survivors who used a novel mobile health (mHealth) intervention to self-manage post-treatment symptoms and concerns were able to improve their quality of life and reduce the burden of common symptoms compared to patients who received usua more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Neal Blasts Latest Republican Attempt to Gut Health Care SPRINGFIELD, MA--Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement blasting House Republicans for another unworkable attempt to hike costs on millions of people and undermine the health care system: "House Republicans' idea of a 'new' h more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * New method improves the reliability of statistical estimations * Let's say an environmental scientist is studying whether exposure to air pollution is associated with lower birth weights in a particular county. They might train a machine-learning model to estimate the magnitude of this association, since machine-learning methods are especially good at learning complex relationshi more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * New MIT program to train military leaders for the AI age * Artificial intelligence can enhance decision-making and enable action with reduced risk and greater precision, making it a critical tool for national security. A new program offered jointly by the MIT departments of Mechanical Engineering (Course 2, MechE) and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6, EECS) wil more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts posted the following news release: * * * New York Developer Charged With Defrauding Pandemic Relief Loan Programs of More Than $8 Million * BOSTON - A New York real estate developer and investor has been charged in connection with a scheme to defraud pandemic relief programs in 2020 and 2021. David Ebrahimzadeh, 45, of New York City, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston on one coun more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 13 -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, posted the following news release: * * * Next Episode: India Has Achieved an Electrification Miracle. Now It's Writing Its Wind Story. In 2010, India's grid was in crisis. The Asian nation struggled with power deficits close to 13% during periods of peak demand, while around one in four Indians still lacked access to electricity. But India has come a long way, and fast. Today 99.6% of Indians have electricity access. Given  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news: * * * On House Floor, Pressley Opposes NDAA, Condemns Harmful Impact on Servicemembers, Families, Safety of the Country * Calls Out Administration's Broken Promise as Provision Covering Military Family's Access to IVF Cut by Republicans "This legislation gives more money to the so-called Department of War than to our Departments of Education, Transportation, and Health and Human Services, combined."  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * President Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore visits MIT * President Tharman Shanmugaratnam of the Republic of Singapore visited MIT on Tuesday, meeting campus leaders while receiving the Miriam Pozen Prize and delivering a lecture on fiscal policy at the MIT Sloan School of Management. "We really have to re-orient fiscal policy and develop new fiscal compacts," said Tharman in h more PR

DEDHAM, Massachusetts, Dec. 11 [Category: BizConsulting] -- The Arc Advisory Group issued the following news release: * * * Process Automation Systems Market Driven by Sustainability, Digitalization Initiatives, and Artificial Intelligence Adoption * According to ARC Advisory Group's new research, the outlook remains positive for capital investments in automation products in the process industries. This is because the macro trends that underlie the growth in this market remain in place. Thes more PR

WESTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 13 -- Regis College issued the following news: * * * Regis Announces Winter Break Courses for Students to Catch-up or Advance Their Degree Progress During the winter break, Regis College will offer two accelerated learning opportunities designed to deliver the same rigorous academic experience as its traditional 15-week undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses, compressed into a two-week format. These intensive courses are open to both Regis and non-Regis stud more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Markey Statement on Republican Vote to Send Health Care Costs Skyrocketing for 22 Million Americans * Markey: "Trump and Republicans never had a real health care planthey only have a 'We-Don't-Care' plan" Washington (December 11, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and on the Health, Education, Labor, and P more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Markey Statement on Trump AI Regulation Moratorium Executive Order * Washington (December 11, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee released the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order bypassing Congress and preempting state regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). "After mon more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts posted the following news release: * * * Southwick Company Agrees to Pay $2 Million to Resolve Allegations of PPP Loan Fraud * BOSTON - Kokusai Denki Electric America, Inc., formerly known as Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark, LLC (Comark), a company headquartered in Southwick, Mass., has agreed to pay $2,092,371 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by obtaining a Paychec more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Statement by Senator Warren on Trump Attack on the City of Boston's Efforts to Build More Homes and Lower Costs for All U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Deve more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 13 -- Northeastern University issued the following news: * * * Students capture the spirit of cities across Northeastern's network Northeastern students across global campuses captured the spirit of their cities in a photo contest held by Global Learner Support. By Alena Kuzub One October night, Yuxin Zhou, an Align computer science student based at Northeastern University's Vancouver campus, was walking through Stanley Park as a full moon rose over the ocean.  more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 13 -- Teach Plus, an organization that empowers teachers to take leadership over key policy and practice issues that affect their students' success, issued the following statement on Dec. 12, 2025: * * * Teach Plus Applauds the Bipartisan Introduction of the New Essential Education Discoveries (NEED) Act of 2025 Washington, D.C., December 12, 2025 -- Teach Plus issued the following statement on the bipartisan introduction of the New Essential Education Discoveries  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Trahan Announces Chelmsford High School Student as Winner of 2025 Congressional App Challenge * WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) announced Reya Kannan, a Tyngsborough native and 11th grader at Chelmsford High School, as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Massachusetts' Third Congressional District. Her app, "Yard2Yum," offers a practical and innovativ more PR

AMHERST, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The University of Massachusetts issued the following news: * * * Torrey Trust, Robert Maloy Publish New Book on AI and Civic Engagement College of Education faculty members Torrey Trust and Robert W. Maloy have recently authored the new book "AI and Civic Engagement: 75+ Cross-Curricular Activities to Empower Your Students," published in November by ISTE+ASCD. This practical guide from Trust, a professor of learning technology, and Maloy, a senior lecturer, more PR

LOWELL, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The University of Massachusetts Lowell campus issued the following news: * * * Students, Professors Share Biggest Takeaways from United Nations Climate Summit COP30 in Brazil Proved Transformative for UMass Lowell Delegation * Despite the United States not having an official presence at the annual United Nations climate summit, UMass Lowell showed up in full force. For the fifth year in a row, UMass Lowell sent students and professors to the Conference of  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Warren, Schumer, Colleagues Press Lutnick on Administration's Decision to Sell Out US National and Economic Security by Greenlighting the Sale of H200 Chips to China The Senators highlighted concerns from Department of Justice law enforcement officials about letting advanced AI chips fall into China's hands; Question more PR