Seth Kroll
@sethkroll.bsky.social
Amateur photographer, lifelong dog-lover, micro-mobility enthusiast, Bostonian-by-choice. Also, communications at Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
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Fighting food waste seems like a good use of machine learning.
Meet Pancho, the AI bot fighting food waste at the hotel buffet
Spanish hoteliers are turning to technology to avoid fines for tossing out up to 30 per cent of lavish daily spreads
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Fighting food waste seems like a good use of machine learning.
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Did you know that Ellen Roche used to train for triathlons?
Ellen Roche is an Associate Faculty member of the Wyss and the Latham Family Career Development Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the IMES at MIT.
Learn more about her in this #Wyss20ishQs.
Ellen Roche is an Associate Faculty member of the Wyss and the Latham Family Career Development Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the IMES at MIT.
Learn more about her in this #Wyss20ishQs.
20-ish Questions with Ellen Roche
20-ish Questions shows a different side of Wyss Institute faculty, touching on aspects of their personal life, hobbies, interests, as well as their research. This round follows Ellen Roche, an Associa...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Did you know that Ellen Roche used to train for triathlons?
Ellen Roche is an Associate Faculty member of the Wyss and the Latham Family Career Development Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the IMES at MIT.
Learn more about her in this #Wyss20ishQs.
Ellen Roche is an Associate Faculty member of the Wyss and the Latham Family Career Development Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the IMES at MIT.
Learn more about her in this #Wyss20ishQs.
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Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects | CNN
Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
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Gina Wang approaches baking the same way she approaches science. The difference is that, in her research, she doesn't have a recipe. She’s making a novel device that could be used to monitor the progression of, and one day diagnose, ALS. Learn more about Gina and her work in this month’s #HOWyss.
Gina Wang on having the NERVE to detect ALS
The Humans of the Wyss (HOW) series features members of the Wyss community discussing their work, the influences that shape them as professionals, and their collaborations at the Wyss Institute and be...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Gina Wang approaches baking the same way she approaches science. The difference is that, in her research, she doesn't have a recipe. She’s making a novel device that could be used to monitor the progression of, and one day diagnose, ALS. Learn more about Gina and her work in this month’s #HOWyss.
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Why has the U.S. government historically awarded grants for fundamental research?
While there’s no guarantee of immediate public benefit, crucial early-stage discoveries spawn developments that have real-world impact.
Follow three projects from government grant to patient impact.
While there’s no guarantee of immediate public benefit, crucial early-stage discoveries spawn developments that have real-world impact.
Follow three projects from government grant to patient impact.
How federal funds fuel life-saving innovation
Why has the U.S. government historically awarded grants for fundamental research when the results aren’t guaranteed to have near-term societal impact? This topic has gotten much attention in recent mo...
wyss.harvard.edu
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Why has the U.S. government historically awarded grants for fundamental research?
While there’s no guarantee of immediate public benefit, crucial early-stage discoveries spawn developments that have real-world impact.
Follow three projects from government grant to patient impact.
While there’s no guarantee of immediate public benefit, crucial early-stage discoveries spawn developments that have real-world impact.
Follow three projects from government grant to patient impact.
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We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines.
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines.
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
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"Delivering biologic drugs across the blood-brain barrier now seems achievable," explains Jim Gorman, Wyss Senior Director of Translational R&D and PI for the Brain Targeting Program.
Learn more about this exciting program, its progress, and how you can get involved.
Learn more about this exciting program, its progress, and how you can get involved.
Crossing the barrier: Wyss Brain Targeting Program is delivering on its promise
By Seth Kroll (BOSTON) — Launched in 2019 as an ambitious idea, the Wyss Brain Targeting Program was designed to address a critical challenge in neuroscience and brain health: how to safely and effect...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Delivering biologic drugs across the blood-brain barrier now seems achievable," explains Jim Gorman, Wyss Senior Director of Translational R&D and PI for the Brain Targeting Program.
Learn more about this exciting program, its progress, and how you can get involved.
Learn more about this exciting program, its progress, and how you can get involved.
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Wyss and @brighamandwomens.bsky.social researchers have developed a novel RNA therapy that overrides an immune-suppressive function in tumor cells to re-engage the immune system in complex tumors. @pnas.org
Beating cancer cells at their own game by stepping on their cGAS
By Benjamin Boettner (BOSTON) — Cancer cells develop various strategies to paralyze immune cells to evade their attack in the complex tumor microenvironment (TME). Using one such strategy, they crippl...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Wyss and @brighamandwomens.bsky.social researchers have developed a novel RNA therapy that overrides an immune-suppressive function in tumor cells to re-engage the immune system in complex tumors. @pnas.org
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⚡ Breaking: FDA unveils new pathway for personalized therapies
FDA unveils new path to speed personalized therapies, inspired by Baby KJ
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and CBER Director Vinay Prasad laid out how drugmakers can reuse technology and earlier data from past efforts to streamline future regulatory reviews.
endpoints.news
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
⚡ Breaking: FDA unveils new pathway for personalized therapies
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Wyss Founding Director, Donald Ingber was featured in last night's episode of @60minutes.bsky.social as part of a segment on funding cuts to Harvard and science in general. Ingber, along with other Harvard faculty, spoke about how their potentially life-saving advances have been jeopardized.
What's at risk when federal research funding to universities is cut | 60 Minutes
Federal research funding to universities has fueled breakthroughs for years. The White House is pressuring universities to align with the president's political agenda, or risk losing their funding.
www.cbsnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Wyss Founding Director, Donald Ingber was featured in last night's episode of @60minutes.bsky.social as part of a segment on funding cuts to Harvard and science in general. Ingber, along with other Harvard faculty, spoke about how their potentially life-saving advances have been jeopardized.
On @60minutes.bsky.social, the @wyssinstitute.bsky.social's Don Ingber spoke about how shrinking federal research support risks American leadership in developing life-saving medical breakthroughs that could potentially save any one of us or our loved ones.
www.cbsnews.com/video/federa...
www.cbsnews.com/video/federa...
What's at risk when federal research funding to universities is cut | 60 Minutes
Federal research funding to universities has fueled breakthroughs for years. The White House is pressuring universities to align with the president's political agenda, or risk losing their funding.
www.cbsnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
On @60minutes.bsky.social, the @wyssinstitute.bsky.social's Don Ingber spoke about how shrinking federal research support risks American leadership in developing life-saving medical breakthroughs that could potentially save any one of us or our loved ones.
www.cbsnews.com/video/federa...
www.cbsnews.com/video/federa...
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Blood Clot Dx is a microfluidic chip device that can non-invasively monitor a patient’s blood for evidence of clotting in real time. The first application will be in patients with MPM, an aggressive lung cancer. Eventually, this could be used to detect blood clots in a variety of contexts.
Blood Clot Dx
An ultra-sensitive triage test that identifies patients at risk for blood clots before they happen, enabling proactive treatment to reduce complications and deaths across a wide range of conditions.
buff.ly
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Blood Clot Dx is a microfluidic chip device that can non-invasively monitor a patient’s blood for evidence of clotting in real time. The first application will be in patients with MPM, an aggressive lung cancer. Eventually, this could be used to detect blood clots in a variety of contexts.
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President Trump has accused elite universities of liberal bias and antisemitism, threatening their federal research funding to pressure them to change. Harvard scientists say this could jeopardize their research into potentially life-saving advances in medicine. 60 Minutes, Sunday.
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
President Trump has accused elite universities of liberal bias and antisemitism, threatening their federal research funding to pressure them to change. Harvard scientists say this could jeopardize their research into potentially life-saving advances in medicine. 60 Minutes, Sunday.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Learn more about our Sustainable Futures Initiative, our latest innovations, and how we're integrated into a larger ecosystem of supporters and collaborators to find innovative solutions to the crisis facing our planet.
Sustainable Futures: creating a healthy planet for all
By Seth Kroll The planet’s health directly impacts human health. Plastic pollution, unsustainable manufacturing, and carbon-intensive material production are accelerating a planetary crisis that deman...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Learn more about our Sustainable Futures Initiative, our latest innovations, and how we're integrated into a larger ecosystem of supporters and collaborators to find innovative solutions to the crisis facing our planet.
Biologists long have been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have solved part of the mystery of how they accomplish this feat — by activating stem cells throughout the body, not just at the injury site.
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Salamanders can regrow limbs. Could humans someday? — Harvard Gazette
New findings raise possibilities for regenerative medicine.
news.harvard.edu
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Biologists long have been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have solved part of the mystery of how they accomplish this feat — by activating stem cells throughout the body, not just at the injury site.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Wyss and @harvardseas.bsky.social researchers have developed a novel vaccine strategy to prevent the infection of implanted orthopedic devices.
Biomaterial vaccines to make implanted orthopedic devices safer
By Benjamin Boettner (BOSTON) — Patients with implanted medical devices like orthopedic joint replacements, pacemakers, and artificial heart valves run a small but significant risk that these devices ...
wyss.harvard.edu
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Wyss and @harvardseas.bsky.social researchers have developed a novel vaccine strategy to prevent the infection of implanted orthopedic devices.
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⚠️ ALERT: Your November SNAP Payments may be delayed due to the federal government shutdown. Need food? The City of Boston is here to help. Visit boston.gov/SNAP for updates on local resources for you and your family.
#ebt #snap #snapbenefits #Boston
#ebt #snap #snapbenefits #Boston
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
⚠️ ALERT: Your November SNAP Payments may be delayed due to the federal government shutdown. Need food? The City of Boston is here to help. Visit boston.gov/SNAP for updates on local resources for you and your family.
#ebt #snap #snapbenefits #Boston
#ebt #snap #snapbenefits #Boston
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Read about our Founding Donor Hansjörg Wyss' vision of spurring progress by investing in innovation that benefits humanity and supports the people and institutions driving it forward.
Shaping a better future through research and purpose-driven innovation
This post originally appeared on The Wyss Foundation blog. By Hansjörg Wyss Over the years, I have devoted much of my life and philanthropy to unlocking scientific discoveries and advancing human heal...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Read about our Founding Donor Hansjörg Wyss' vision of spurring progress by investing in innovation that benefits humanity and supports the people and institutions driving it forward.
In honor of Bob Ross’ birthday, the @wyssinstitute.bsky.social posted a video of George Church doing a near perfect impression of Ross…painting a happy woolly mammoth. www.instagram.com/reel/DQZnoLe...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
In honor of Bob Ross’ birthday, the @wyssinstitute.bsky.social posted a video of George Church doing a near perfect impression of Ross…painting a happy woolly mammoth. www.instagram.com/reel/DQZnoLe...
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Last week, we published our 2025 Impact Report: A Force of Nature.
We’re so proud to share the numerous advances our community has made over the last year. See how we're fulfilling our mission of transforming healthcare and the environment, and learn how you can get involved.
We’re so proud to share the numerous advances our community has made over the last year. See how we're fulfilling our mission of transforming healthcare and the environment, and learn how you can get involved.
2025 Wyss Impact Report
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October 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Last week, we published our 2025 Impact Report: A Force of Nature.
We’re so proud to share the numerous advances our community has made over the last year. See how we're fulfilling our mission of transforming healthcare and the environment, and learn how you can get involved.
We’re so proud to share the numerous advances our community has made over the last year. See how we're fulfilling our mission of transforming healthcare and the environment, and learn how you can get involved.
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For microscopic worms, physical laws we seldom notice take on life-or-death importance
These Worms Use Static Electricity like a Sci-Fi Tractor Beam
For microscopic worms, physical laws we seldom notice take on life-or-death importance
www.scientificamerican.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
For microscopic worms, physical laws we seldom notice take on life-or-death importance
New @wyssinstitute.bsky.social study show how Organ Chips can be used to safely, effectively test next-generation CRISPR RNA therapies that target Influenza A strains.
This treatment reduced viral load by more than 50%, significantly lowered inflammation.
wyss.harvard.edu/news/human-o...
This treatment reduced viral load by more than 50%, significantly lowered inflammation.
wyss.harvard.edu/news/human-o...
Human Organ Chip technology sets stage for pan-influenza A CRISPR RNA therapies
By Benjamin Boettner (BOSTON) – The Influenza A virus (IAV) has been the cause of six major flu pandemics, responsible for 50 to 100 million deaths globally. In the U.S. alone, it is estimated that, d...
wyss.harvard.edu
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
New @wyssinstitute.bsky.social study show how Organ Chips can be used to safely, effectively test next-generation CRISPR RNA therapies that target Influenza A strains.
This treatment reduced viral load by more than 50%, significantly lowered inflammation.
wyss.harvard.edu/news/human-o...
This treatment reduced viral load by more than 50%, significantly lowered inflammation.
wyss.harvard.edu/news/human-o...
Congratulations to Chris Chen (BU and @wyssinstitute.bsky.social) on being elected to the National Academy of Medicine — one of the field’s highest honors.
Chris’s work intersects engineering, biology, and medicine.
wyss.harvard.edu/news/wyss-in...
Chris’s work intersects engineering, biology, and medicine.
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Wyss Institute Core Faculty member Christopher S. Chen elected to the National Academy of Medicine
By Alexandra Jirstrand (BOSTON) — Christopher S. Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Core Faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, and the William F. Warren Dis...
wyss.harvard.edu
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Congratulations to Chris Chen (BU and @wyssinstitute.bsky.social) on being elected to the National Academy of Medicine — one of the field’s highest honors.
Chris’s work intersects engineering, biology, and medicine.
wyss.harvard.edu/news/wyss-in...
Chris’s work intersects engineering, biology, and medicine.
wyss.harvard.edu/news/wyss-in...
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Could a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants monitor and improve the quality of the air indoors? (Where Americans spend 90 percent of their time!)
An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏
An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏
Up to $40 million in federal funding fuels research to revolutionize clean indoor air
With the contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an interdisciplinary research team led by Virginia Tech and Linsey Marr will create a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants t...
news.vt.edu
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Could a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants monitor and improve the quality of the air indoors? (Where Americans spend 90 percent of their time!)
An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏
An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏