Life inside Kendall Square, the beating heart of biotech
Here in the fertile crescent of the biotech industry, you could complete the entire life cycle of a company without much troubling your pedometer.
Battles of tomorrow being waged in Kendall Square
100 years ago, MIT moved across the Charles River and turned a dusty strip of warehouses into a capital of innovation.
Latest 100 Years Of Kendall Square headlines
Kendall Sq. visionaries
Lita Nelsen’s rich legacy of innovation
MIT’s Lita Nelsen shattered glass ceilings in the complex world of technology transfer.
Kendall Sq. visionaries
Smart benches seek to transform city fixtures with data
A park bench that can talk to the cloud? MIT spinout Soofa says that’s just the start of a new wave in high-tech urban infrastructure.
Kendall Sq. visionaries
Dr. Jay Bradner aims to bridge science with schools
In March, he took over the Kendall-headquartered Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research.
Kendall Sq. visionaries
A new way to get nuclear power, reducing waste in the process
Transatomic Power is in the midst of a long slog that could redefine the nuclear reactor, giving the world huge amounts of safer, carbon-free electricity.
Kendall Sq. visionaries
Her next project: curing a rare, inherited blindness disorder
Katrine Bosley is working to turn gene-editing technology into a marketable therapeutic.
Kendall Sq. visionaries
Biotech enabler launches startups from scratch
Noubar Afeyan’s Flagship Ventures is a Kendall kingmaker, having helped finance some of the buzziest biotech startups in the world.
Timeline
A century of innovation 1916-2016
Kendall Square has been on a centurylong roll that shows no signs of slowing down. Here are a few highlights.
Map: The Kendall Square network
The biggest players in Kendall Square.