News from 2016

NEW RESEARCH CENTER AIMS TO MAP BRAIN’S NERVE CIRCUITS IN SEARCH FOR CAUSES OF MENTAL ILLNESS

Scientists in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) and Center for Brain Science (CBS) have launched a high-tech effort to map the brain’s “wiring diagram” and…

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SMELL YOUR FRIENDS FROM YOUR ENEMIES!

Unlike humans, most animals rely heavily on scents to collect information about their external environment, and in particular assess the friendly or not-so-friendly nature of encounters with other…

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DULAC AWARDED PERL/UNC NEUROSCIENCE PRIZE

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named Catherine Dulac, PhD and Cori Bargmann, PhD as co-recipients of the 11th Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize. The Perl prize…

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EMERITUS MCB PROFESSOR “UNTANGLES” THE DOUBLE HELIX IN NEW BOOK

  Forty-one years ago, Jim Wang discovered the first of a family of enzymes crucial to the disentanglement of DNA strands or double helices during various cellular processes…

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AFTER MUCH TRAVEL, NEW PROFESSOR ALIGHTS IN CAMBRIDGE

  Vlad Denic has been around. He's lived in Belgrade and Baghdad. He went to college in New Zealand and did his graduate work in San Francisco. At…

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MEISTER LAB: THE EYE HAS A SHORT ATTENTION SPAN

No matter how hard we fix our gaze, our eyes are in constant motion due to involuntary head and eye movements. The resulting image motion on our retinas…

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ALEX SCHIER’S ZEBRAFISH OFFER VIEW INTO DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR

Alex Schier They’re the first fish kids kill. But they’re a godsend to a developmental geneticist like Alex Schier, a new Professor in Harvard’s Department of Molecular and…

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ANDY MCMAHON RECEIVES JAVITS AWARD

"The award recognizes ten years of peer reviewed, NINS-funded research on the mechanisms and actions of Hedgehog signaling in the mammalian embryo. We have come along way in…

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FLYBASE: SHARING THE DROSOPHILA GENOME

Next time you recoil from a swarm of fruit flies in your kitchen, consider this: You and these hovering insects share an ancestral bond, dating back hundreds of…

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