Co-authors Andy McMahon (left) and Stephen Rodda The mammalian skeleton is important for many physiological functions; as a scaffold, it supports the body, enabling motion and mechanical loading,…
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RACHELLE GAUDET IS HOOKED ON CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
Rachelle Gaudet When she was finishing her postdoctoral research, Rachelle Gaudet anticipated leaving behind the old and starting a new project in her own lab. She had been…
MAPPING EVOLUTION: LINKING ADAPTIVE TRAITS TO GENOMIC LOCATION
Authors Ayellet Segrè and Andrew Murray Life exists in an impressive variety of forms, but the processes responsible for generating all that variation typically take far longer than…
HASTINGS AWARDED FARRELL PRIZE
Woody Hastings (photo by Graham G. Ramsay) Professor J. Woodland (Woody) Hastings has been awarded the 4th annual Peter C. Farrell Prize in Sleep Medicine from the Harvard…
MAMMALIAN EGG PROGENITORS STAY PUT
Co-authors Amy Wagers and Kevin Eggan One of the central dogmas of mammalian reproduction is that females are born with a fixed pool of meiotic germ cells in…
NATURAL KILLERS HAVE A COMPLEX
Left to right: Xi Chen, Jack Strominger and Konrad Krzewski Natural killer (NK) cells comprise a relatively small subset of lymphocytes (~15%). Nonetheless, they play a very important…
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY HONORS TOM MANIATIS
Bruce Stillman, left, President of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Tom Maniatis (photo by Gina Motisi) Tom Maniatis has been awarded an honorary degree from Cold Spring Harbor…
UNDERGRADUATE BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Milena Andzelm and Shelly Choo For the first time since 2000, there are two winners of the annual Henderson Prize. Milena Andzelm was recognized for her research on…
MEISTER SHOWS THAT THE EYES HAVE IT
Markus Meister Can the closed eyes of an unborn baby produce messages that help normal brain development in the womb? It may seem strange to think so, but…
TRANSLATING THE LANGUAGE OF PHEROMONES
When animals meet, how do they distinguish friend from foe? Such determinations must be made quickly, since any delay could mean a missed opportunity, but also accurately, since…
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