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RHINOS BESSIE AND VICTORIA CELEBRATE 70 YEARS

Planning Committe (L to R): Cheryl Hutt, Celia Shneider, Barbara Cerva, Corinna Rohse and Stephanie Levinson Vicky and Bess, the two rhinoceros sculptures outside the Bio Labs Building,…

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NEURODEGENERATION IN A PETRI-DISH: AN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL MODEL FOR ALS

Authors (left to right): Francesco DiGiorgio, Monica Carrasco, Tom Maniatis, Michelle Siao, Kevin Eggan Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a devastating…

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REGULATION OF CYCLIN-CDK ACTIVITY BY INOSITOL PYROPHOSPHATES

Authors Erin K. O'Shea (left) and Recent work by the O’Shea lab offers new insight into metabolic processes.  Cell metabolism engenders many secondary products, metabolites, that play crucial…

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2007 GGTP SYMPOSIUM: SEX AND CONFLICT

Friday April 27th, 2007 Sherman-Fairchild Room 102 7 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University Every year, second year students from the Genetics and Genomics Training Program host a symposium that…

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TARGET-DERIVED SIGNALS ORGANIZE MOTOR NERVE TERMINALS

Authors Michael Fox (left) and Josh Sanes The synapse is the heart of the nervous system, the site at which information is processed and passed between cells. Proper…

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RETINAL GANGLION CELLS RAPIDLY CHANGE POLARITY

Authors (left to right) Maria Neimark Geffen, Saskia E. J. de Vries and Markus Meister The eye communicates to the brain all the information needed for vision in…

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APRIL 21 SYMPOSIUM: HOW QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY IS MEASURING UP

On Saturday, April 21, a day-long symposium will be held at Harvard on "New Directions in Quantitative Biology". Sponsored by Harvard’s Division of Life Sciences and hosted by…

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PUTTING A FACE ON A CLASS OF VIRAL DEUBIQUITINATING ENZYMES

(l to r) Authors Wilhelm Weihofen, Rachelle Gaudet and Christian Schlieker Herpesviruses (members of the Herpesviridae family) are widespread pathogens, causing disease in humans and animals. The family…

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YANKING THE CHAIN: PULLING ON BACTERIAL FLAGELLA TO TRIGGER POLYMORPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS

Authors Howard C. Berg & Nicholas C. Darnton In many of the bacteria that swim by rotating helical flagella, the flagellum itself is not a simple, passive propeller.…

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