New Dana-Farber/Beth Israel cancer hospital gets state OK

By adamg - Fri, 03/21/2025 - 9:48am

GBH reports state regulators have given their OK to plans for a $1.7-billion, 14-story, 320-bed cancer hospital on land now occupied by the Joslin Diabetes Center. Read more.

Joslin cancels all patient appointments today after administrative worker tests positive for coronavirus

By adamg - Tue, 03/17/2020 - 9:39am

The Joslin Diabetes Center reports that as a precaution, it cancelled all patient appointments today after learning an administrative worker - who had no patient contact - tested positive for Covid-19. Read more.

Seaweed proves key to potential cure for type 1 diabetes being developed locally

By adamg - Tue, 01/26/2016 - 7:09am

The Harvard Gazette reports researchers at Harvard, MIT and the Joslin Diabetes Center have successfully tested an implantable bundle containing human pancreas cells in mice and primates with type 1 diabetes.

Key to the research is alginate, a substance derived from seaweed that blocks the immune system from attacking the container for the new cells as "foreign" without the need for expensive and risky immune suppressing drugs. Read more.