Researchers find key to healing muscle injuries in elderly

Controlling inflammation enables injured aged muscle recovery, offering promise for the future of mechanotherapies.

Benjamin Boettner • harvard
March 22, 2023 • ~7 min

Wyss-designed swabs enter human trials for COVID-19

The Wyss Institute has collaborated in the design of a new low-cost nasopharyngeal swabs that can be manufactured quickly to address the international shortage of swabs for testing and research.

Lindsay Brownell • harvard
April 28, 2020 • ~12 min

Platelet ‘decoys’ outsmart both clots and cancer

A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and several collaborating institutions has created a drug-free, reversible antiplatelet therapy that uses deactivated “decoy” platelets to reduce the risk of blood clots and potentially prevent cancer metastasis.

Lindsay Brownell • harvard
Feb. 13, 2019 • ~8 min

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