Morgan Glass

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Ageing, immune fitness and cancer - Nature Reviews Cancer Ageing reshapes immune composition, function and regenerative capacity, with profound effects on tumour immunity, cancer progression and treatment outcomes. In this Review, Dolan and colleagues examine how age-resolved immunoprofiling, insights from ageing haematopoiesis and preclinical modelling are uncovering immune ageing dynamics and therapeutic challenges — revealing new opportunities to optimize cancer therapy across diverse age groups.

🥳 First up in #NRCtop10of2025:

#10) Ageing, immune fitness and cancer

#ageing #aging #ageingandcancer #agingandcancer @NatResCancer
#NRCtop10of2025

Aging: the wound that never starts healing - Nature Communications Aging is a complex process resulting in a decline in organ function. Here the authors proposes that chronic activation of tissue damage response mechanisms drives aging, with aged organs displaying fe...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some of your cells are not genetically yours — what can they tell us about life and death? A tiny population of cells that are passed across the placenta between mother and baby challenge basic tenets of human immunology.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.

🗞️Our December issue is live, featuring the identification of age-related cell states in breast cancer on the cover!📷The issue also includes work on ECM aging, somatic mutations, epigenetic drift, intrinsic capacity and much more. Read it all here: nature.com/nataging/vol...

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rural exclusion from science and academia Rural individuals are underrepresented in science at all levels. The disenfranchisement of rural people in science and research foments a cultural divide between rural America and the scientific community. Science can improve inclusion of rural ...

The relative absence of rural perspectives in science “stokes a cultural divide between urban & rural populations that propagates large-scale societal problems —science skepticism, vaccine hesitancy, & a lack of support for science funding.”
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

How Do Dormant Cancer Cells Become Metastases? The interplay between dormant cancer cells and components of the immune system appears to heavily influence if cancer later returns as metastatic disease.

www.cancer.gov/news-events/...

Innovative program gives medical students a fuller view of the health care system’s failings A unique Harvard program trains future physicians to recognize structural failures embedded within our health care system.

www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/m...

Cell populations in human breast cancers are molecularly and biologically distinct with age - Nature Aging Parsons and colleagues characterize age-associated changes in the tumor microenvironment of triple-negative and estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer using computational analysis of transcriptomic ...

Online now!✨Parsons et al profile age-associated changes in the tumor microenvironment of triple-negative and estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer nature.com/articles/s43... rdcu.be/eOc8t @vangalenlab.bsky.social @sandramcallister.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Reporter's notebook: Inside a Harvard cancer research lab that lost federal funding WBUR's Martha Bebinger talks about her visit to the lab of Harvard scientist Joan Brugge, whose federal funding for breast cancer research was frozen by the Trump administration.

www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

NSF changed their eligibility requirements for the GRFP a month before the deadline. Students used to be able to apply in their 1st or 2nd year, now only 1st years can apply - excluding an entire cohort of students with no notice. Yet another way this admin is kneecapping American science

If human biology were simple, we’d have already figured everything out. Just because we don’t know the answer to something, doesn’t mean we can push an answer into a spot and pretend it fits.

Talkin’ ’Bout Regeneration Nadia Rosenthal discusses her journey through Harvard as a female scientist, a midnight “eureka” moment, and mentoring women who come through her lab.

gsas.harvard.edu/news/talkin-...

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase? Nature - RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research.

RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible for the rise in autism diagnoses, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research

go.nature.com/3JGsaQ2

Solving evolutionary mystery of how humans came to walk upright — Harvard Gazette New study identifies genetic, developmental shifts that resculpted pelvis, setting ancestors apart from other primates.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

At Harvard, Trump administration cuts hit young scientists hard More than 700 graduate students and nearly 800 postdoctoral researchers at Harvard get salaries, stipends or tuition support from federally funded research.

“We feel like the lost generation.” A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

It’s out!!!!! We hope our review on aging, immunity, and cancer is helpful.

Such a rewarding group effort led by Melissa Dolan, with Kendra Libby, Alison Ringle, and @vangalenlab.bsky.social

So grateful to @gabriellebrewer.bsky.social @natrevcancer.nature.com for her efforts and support

WV Scientists, let's stick together and show each other support! First meeting is tonight-- shoot me a message if you're interested in joining! Tremendous thank you to @morgan-glass.bsky.social for organizing!

New hope for Alzheimer’s: lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice Studies in rodents and humans suggest that low levels of the metal contribute to cognitive decline.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

Education itself at the root of the math gender gap A massive study reveals four months after starting school, the gender gap in math appears

My latest in Harvard’s ScienceInTheNews Blog: 📚➗✖️

sites.harvard.edu/sitn/2025/07...

Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, tumour necrosis and metastasis - Nature Neutrophils actively induce tumour necrosis, driving vascular occlusion, pleomorphic necrosis and metastasis.

Nature research paper: Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, tumour necrosis and metastasis

go.nature.com/4lzilSb

Donald Trump is ripping away America’s role as a world leader in science and innovation.

Cuts to health care breakthroughs.
Cuts to tech development.
Cuts to energy research.

How is this America first?

Some anti-union moves by Harvard that impact grad students during this already tumultuous time:

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Nerve-to-cancer transfer of mitochondria during cancer metastasis - Nature A study reports the development of a method to trace intercellular transfer of mitochondria, and demonstrates that cancer cells that receive mitochondria from neurons have enhanced metastatic capabilities.

Nature research paper: Nerve-to-cancer transfer of mitochondria during cancer metastasis

https://go.nature.com/46c474I

Science Funding Cuts Affect Our Present and Future Zebrafish are cool. They’re just one of a handful of animals that can regenerate their brain, spine, and even heart after injury. Unsurprisingly, a lot can be learned from studying how these injured o...

Happy to see the article I wrote in print back home! Thankful for the McClintock Letters organizers (‪@cornellasap.bsky.social‬) and Science Homecoming (@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social‬) for all their hard work in coordinating this effort.