100 years biochemical sciences tutorial
Rebecka Sepela, a postdoctoral researcher in Nicholas Bellono’s MCB lab, has received an NIH Pathway to Independence (K99/R00) Award to study how animals derive information from their external…
BioCamp's summer sessions have been a hit, with all modules now full except the August 3–14 Microbiology session, which still has a few openings. If you know a…
Two recent Harvard graduates with ties to the MCB department have been named recipients of the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholars fellowship at Stanford University, joining a global cohort of…
Several MCB-affiliated faculty members have been selected as recipients of the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research, one of Harvard's most prestigious internal funding competitions. The awards, administered…
Why do animals respond differently to the same social situation? According to new research from the MCB lab of Florian Engert, the answer may depend as much on…
Arshia Mostoufi, an MCO PhD candidate in the lab of Ya-Chieh Hsu in Harvard's Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, has received a prestigious doctoral fellowship from…
Understanding how a single genetic mutation can alter the shape of a developing organ has long posed a challenge for developmental biologists. While researchers can readily study the…
A dead fly perched high on a blade of grass, wings raised, glued in place by its own mouthparts, might look like something out of a horror movie.…
After nearly two decades at Harvard, neuroscientist Naoshige Uchida is preparing to take on a new role: chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB). Uchida,…
After nearly 20 years of meticulous research, a team of Harvard scientists has published findings in Nature Neuroscience (PDF) that fundamentally challenge how we think about brain development.…
