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A three-way collaboration between the laboratories of Rich Losick in MCB and Roberto Kolter and Jon Clardy at Harvard Medical School has led to the discovery of a…
April 5th marked the final week for this year's Spring Laboratory Workshop for High School Biology Classes offered by Life Sciences Outreach. This year, Outreach served approximately 600…
Cadherin-23 stretching simulations. A close-up view of the linker region between cadherin-23 repeats 1 and 2 is shown during a molecular dynamics simulation in which the protein is…
Microbes (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists) are ubiquitous on Earth and affect every part of our lives, yet they are mostly invisible. Microbial scientists believe the vast…
(L to R)Nadine Vastenhouw and Alexander Schier The genomes of most animals are inactive for hours or days after fertilization. Transcription is only initiated during the maternal-zygotic transition…
William M. Gelbart, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, will receive the 2010 George W. Beadle Award for outstanding contributions to the community of genetics researchers from the…
The annual John M. Prather Lectures in Biology will be presented by Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino Research Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology at Harvard, and one…
Bacteria have been steadily shedding their former image as amorphous sacks of protein with simplistic, individualistic life styles, and one of the newest surprises is that these complex…
(L to R) Beth Weiner, Nancy Kleckner, Alison Grinthal, and Martin Karplus There is widespread current interest in the roles of mechanical forces for basic cellular process. Many…
Jack Strominger In May, Jack Strominger will receive the 2010 Excellence in Mentoring Award from the American Association of Immunologists (AAI). Strominger, the Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and…
