100 years biochemical sciences tutorial
A fundamental question in neuroscience is how neural networks generate behavior. The first challenge in answering this question is to identify neurons and circuits controlling the behavior of…
Two MCB seniors have received Harvard fellowships. Karen Reyes will spend a year abroad in Spain as a Rockefeller Travel Fellow, and Bridget Keegan has been chosen as…
MCB Professor Joshua Sanes has been named as a recipient of the prestigious 2018 Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize. Past awardees include six Nobel laureates, 3 Kavli Prize winners, and…
Research studies by Jeff Farrell, Yiqun Wang, Bushra Raj, and James Gagnon and their collaborators were featured as “Breakthrough of the Year 2018” by Science Magazine. They used…
Consider an encounter with a parent carrying a baby. Regardless of the baby crying, smiling or sleeping, the sight of a very young infant typically triggers a unique…
Dima Ter-Ovanesyan had been up all night working as a student-EMT, but he went to the lab the next morning to conduct his experiment. He soon found that…
Each fall, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa,(ΦΒΚ), the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the United States, elects 48 seniors as new members. This…
Each year, Harvard’s student-run newspaper publishes a series of interviews with fifteen seniors. The Crimson’s editors used computer program to randomly select 15 members of Class of ‘19.…
This winter, the MCB Holiday Gift Drive collected gifts and supplies for Rosie’s Place, the oldest women’s shelter in the country. The entire MCB community pitched in and…
Born in Hyderabad, India, Abhinav Grama’s first encounters with science were through books. “I would devour all kinds of books,” he recalls. Medical thrillers by physician-turned-novelist Robin Cook…
