CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * 3 Questions: Using computation to study the world's best single-celled chemists * Today, out of an estimated 1 trillion species on Earth, 99.999 percent are considered microbial bacteria, archaea, viruses, and single-celled eukaryotes. For much of our planet's history, microbes ruled the Earth, able to live and thrive in the most extreme of environments. Researchers have only just  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR, CAIR-CT, CAIR-MA Extend Condolences to Families of Brown University Student Victims, Prayers for Full Recovery of Injured * The National office (CAIR) and the Massachusetts and Connecticut chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CT) today extended condolences to the families and loved ones of Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook, who w more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Moulton Releases 2025 Year-in-Review Report Highlighting Major Wins for the Sixth District * SALEM, MA \- Today, Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-06) released his 2025 Year-in-Review Report, detailing a year of significant victories for North Shore communities, constituent services successes, and national leadership on veterans' issues, government oversight, national security, and prot more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 [Category: BizHospital] -- The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute issued the following news release: * * * Dana-Farber Research Supports FDA Approval of T-DXd Plus Pertuzumab for First-Line Treatment of HER2+ Metastatic Breast Cancer * The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) in combination with pertuzumab for first-line treatment of metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. The approval is based on results from the phase  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell * During early development, tissues and organs begin to bloom through the shifting, splitting, and growing of many thousands of cells. A team of MIT engineers has now developed a way to predict, minute by minute, how individual cells will fold, divide, and rearrange during a fruit fly's earliest stage of growth. The  more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * In the New York Law Journal, Litigation & Enforcement Attorneys Analyze GenAI's Impact on Discovery * Litigation & enforcement partner Andrew Todres, managing principal and global head of Advanced E-Discovery and AI Strategy Shannon Capone Kirk, and litigation & enforcement associates Isaac Sommers and Emma Grunhaus authored an article in the New York Law Journal examining  more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts posted the following news release: * * * Medical Software Company Agrees to Pay $500,000 to Resolve Allegations of Causing Medically Unnecessary Breast Cancer Screening Claims * BOSTON - PenRad Technologies, Inc. (PenRad), a software company headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., has agreed to pay $529,069 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by causing health care providers t more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025 * The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named nine MIT affiliates as members of the 2025 class of NAI Fellows. They include Ahmad Bahai, an MIT professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Kripa K. Varanasi, MIT professor in the Department of M more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2025: * * * Neal Reintroduces Automatic IRA Bill Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) reintroduced the Automatic IRA Act, which would expand retirement coverage for millions of workers. The legislation unlocks a key retirement savings vehicle for employees, gig workers, and other independent contractors nati more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Paulita Pike Highlights 2025 ETF Oversight and Compliance Priorities in Fund Directions * In a Fund Directions article, asset management partner Paulita Pike discussed how a surge in product innovation is reshaping board-level compliance priorities for 2025, with a particular focus on ETF share classes and private/public fund structures. Additionally, the adoption of AI h more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Markey Statement on Need to Reopen Small Business Innovation Programs Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today released a statement on the ongoing shutdown of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, which are responsible for awarding  more PR

SANTA BARBARA, California, Dec. 15 [Category: BizReal Estate] -- Yardi, a provider of property management software and investment management solutions for real estate, issued the following news release: * * * Simplified selects Yardi to centralize property and construction operations * Multifamily firm unifies management, project tracking and resident services on a single connected platform SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 15, 2025 - Yardi (r) announced today that Simplified Management, a devel more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 16 [Category: BizConsulting] -- Bain and Co., a management consulting firm, posted the following news release: * * * Six trends to watch in 2026 as Asia-Pacific prepares to overtake North America as the largest consumer market worth $36 trillion in 2035 * SINGAPORE December 16, 2025 Asia Pacific is set to overtake North America as the largest consumer market in 2035, according to a new joint report by Bain & Company and NielsenIQ (NIQ). Private consumption in the  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 16 -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, posted the following news release on Dec. 15, 2025: * * * Sparks of Wisdom: What We Learned This Year from 10 GE Vernova Innovators Earlier this year, GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik wrote that helping to solve the energy challenges of tomorrow depends on the "gritty, never-give-up" hopefulness of its 75,000 employees. "What we've learned in our first historic year as GE Vernova is that the best way to do this starts on our fa more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Trahan, Beyer, Obernolte, Padilla, Cornyn Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Establish a Federal Office of Fusion * WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressional Fusion Energy Caucus Co-Chairs Lori Trahan (D-MA-03), Don Beyer (D-VA-08), and Jay Obernolte (R-CA-23) introduced bipartisan legislation to formally establish the Office of Fusion at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Warren Presses Bessent and Swiss Megabank UBS on Private Conversations on the Bank's Possible Move to the U.S., Exposing Taxpayers to Risk U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, sent letters to Swiss megabank UBS Group AG Chairman Colm Kell more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * What makes a good proton conductor? * A number of advanced energy technologies including fuel cells, electrolyzers, and an emerging class of low-power electronics use protons as the key charge carrier. Whether or not these devices will be widely adopted hinges, in part, on how efficiently they can move protons. One class of materials known as metal oxides has shown promise in con more PR