Rich Losick The Gairdner Foundation announced on March 31 that MCB's Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology Rich Losick was one of seven recipients of its 2009 Canada…
More than a century ago, famous neuroanatomist and histologist Ramon y Cajal proposed the idea that a neuron receives information through its extensive dendritic tree and sends it…
(L to R) Areez Mody and Sharad Ramanathan During evolution certain gene families have increased in number following gene duplication by repeatedly finding novel functions even though random…
Andres Leschziner Andres Leschziner, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, will be a 2009 Sloan Research Fellow, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced recently. The fellowships are…
Kumaran S. Ramamurthi and Richard Losick Although bacteria are much more architecturally simple than eukaryotic cells, it has been evident for over a decade now that they are…
(L to R) David Jeruzalmi, Danaya Pakotiprapha, and Gregory L. Verdine Genomic DNA is under a constant attack by various damaging agents. Left uncorrected, such damage can lead…
If you were tempted by cookies and coffee outside the Biolabs lecture hall on Wednesday afternoons in the fall, you were likely one of many MCB community members…
Ju Lu and Jeff Lichtman It is widely believed that in order to understand how the nervous system works, one needs to know where neural processes go and…
Antony M. Jose and Craig P. Hunter Distant cells in our body talk to each other to co-ordinate what they do. Typically, one cell sends a signal that…
