A new paper in Nature Methods (PDF) from the labs of MCB’s Jeff Lichtman and Aravinthan Samuel, of the department of physics and Center for Brain Science, introduces…
Harvard College senior Fajr Khan, a neuroscience concentrator whose work spans maternal mental health, child psychology, and the biological foundations of psychiatric illness, has been selected as a…
MCB concentrator and 2024 graduate Tomi Siyanbade has been named a Marshall Scholar and will pursue a doctoral degree in Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford. The…
Nancy Kleckner, the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology, has been awarded the 2025 Charles E. Helmstetter Prize Lifetime Achievement Award (PDF) in recognition of her groundbreaking research…
Long before flowers painted the planet in brilliant colors, some of Earth’s earliest plants were glowing—not with pigment, but with heat. A new study from the lab of…
Last Friday, MCB’s once-a-semester Community Forum, hosted by Rachelle Gaudet, took place, and the recipient of this year’s 2025 Doty–Losick Award, Glenda Espinoza, Assistant Supervisor with C&W Facilities…
MCB is pleased to announce that Xueyang Dong, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of MCB’s Kazuki Nagashima, has been selected for a prestigious Cancer Research Institute (CRI)…
A long-standing mystery in microbiome research—how a gut-bacterial toxin physically damages human DNA—has finally been solved through a close collaboration led in part by researchers in the Victoria…
When Ashley Johnson stepped into the role of Interim Program Administrator for the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) and Chemical and Physical Biology (CPB) concentrations this past May,…
MCB is pleased to announce that Naoshige (Nao) Uchida, a leading neuroscientist whose work has reshaped our understanding of learning, decision-making, and sensory processing, has been appointed the…
