Biotechnology company Genzyme Corp. said Thursday a European advisory committee recommended approving the company’s drug Renvela as a treatment for patients with chronic kidney disease, including patients not on dialysis.

The monthly schedule is church-like, with its parenting classes, guest speakers and small group meetings to hash out shared beliefs. But God isn’t part of this Cambridge congregation.

Top minds at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are pulling together to tackle the world’s transportation problems.

Harvard University is planning to restore the luxury suite where Franklin Delano Roosevelt lived during his four years at the school.

Harvard University says it’s cutting about a quarter of the staff _ or about 50 jobs _ from the company that manages its endowment after the fund tumbled $8 billion in four months.

Accompanied by Harvard men in drag, Renee Zellweger has been honored as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals woman of the year.

James Franco, who won recent acclaim for playing both a goofy pot dealer and Harvey Milk’s lover, has been named Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Man of the Year.

The FBI says it’s launched a “complete review of all evidence” in the unsolved 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area.

Federal agents have searched the Massachusetts home of a man linked to the fatal 1982 Tylenol poisonings in the Chicago area.

A protester threw a shoe at China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao during his speech at Cambridge University, police said Monday.