Archive for June 2021

Mark Stebbins, the chairman and CEO of a New Hampshire development firm that had a hand in college, office, hotels and other buildings across the region, died earlier this month at age 67. Read More

Six cities, including Boston, Lynn and Somerville, will receive a total of nearly 5 miles of new bus lanes and other transit upgrades this summer as the MBTA looks to help the region return to work as the pandemic eases. Read More

Boston serial entrepreneur Paul English is known for co-founding travel tech firm Kayak, sold to Priceline.com for $1.8 billion in 2013. But the list of his obsessions turning into companies includes eight ventures co-founded since 1999, focusing on arcane and less-arcane subjects spanning from Chinese chess players (Xiangqi.com, relaunched in 2021) to business travel (Lola.com,…

Many companies are considering reducing their office space as they implement a hybrid workplace model. Experts say there are several questions a company should consider before taking that step. Read More

A new USDA grant program aims to elevate rural communities across the nation with grants of up to $2 million. Read More

In a first for the still-young field of CRISPR gene editing, Intellia Therapeutics has successfully edited DNA inside the human body. These are early-stage data, but they hold significant promise for the CRISPR field. Read More

Thousands of college athletes will soon be able to capitalize off their personal brands — a concept that’s commonplace in professional sports but has been prohibited at the collegiate level. The trouble is, there is no national framework or legislation in place to help student-athletes and their universities navigate a new frontier for collegiate athletics,…

Made to operate in close similarity to an at-home pregnancy test, these Wyss Institute and MIT developers worked to create a single-use face mask that can detect if the wearer has COVID-19 with built in technology. Read More

The Boston area’s spreading life sciences industry could be headed next to Malden, with a planned nine-story office building approved near Malden Center. Read More

Saint Vincent nurses are slated to meet with members of the bargaining unit Monday to review the proposal and the committee will be preparing a counterproposal to present to management on Tuesday. Read More