Fumasoni and Murray show how evolution can quickly and reproducibly change conserved features involved in the maintenance of genomes in response to constitutive problems affecting DNA replication. Four…
Ethan Garner (PI) “I’ve been working at home for quite some time (I have been on medical leave and fully isolating since early January as I am immune…
When Harvard University professor Ethan Garner pondered how to help health-care workers facing a lack of medical equipment as they fight the novel coronavirus, he thought about Burning…
Biological function, such as DNA replication and chromosome segregation, depend on the complex interactions among many different proteins. As a biological function changes during evolution, the network of…
MCB concentrator Nathan Grant (’20) recently authored a short paper (PDF) in the journal Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports, where he responds to an original study by Eisengart…
Historically, it was thought that the brain lacked an immune system because the blood-brain barrier prevents the entry of immune cells from the rest of the body. However,…
In the brain, the function of a nerve cell (a neuron) is based both on the input it receives, via synapses onto its dendrites from upstream neurons, and…
Today, The Harvard Gazette featured a recent panel discussion about the science and cultural significance of scent. The panel included MCB faculty and Chair Venkatesh Murthy, along with…
MCB administrative staff member Giselle Grenier, who serves as executive assistant to MCB faculty Takao Hensch and John Dowling, has been named as a 2020 recipient of the…
