Our brains generally represent the outside world using ordered maps. For example, neighboring points in visual space activate neighboring points on the retina, and this relation is preserved…
The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, in partnership with the "Molecules, Cells, and Organisms" graduate training program, is pleased to announce a new summer internship program for…
Seung-Hwan Kim and Matthew Michael Just as dinner party guests who linger at the table long after coffee and dessert can strain the patience of their hosts, an…
(L to R) Andy McMahon and Jan Stenman All tissues in our bodies require blood vessels for oxygen and nutrients. While all vasculature share certain features, their formation…
Organized by members of MCB's Human Resources (L to R): Alice Ronchetti, Zoya Omartian, and Joanie White
Andrew Capaldi and Erin O'Shea The gene expression program in a cell is set in response to the level, timing and combination of hundreds of developmental and environmental…
MCB Building Operations crew (L to R): Jimmy Costello, Gary Goodwin, Les Takacs, Eileen Snow, Paul Tighe, Chuck Bilikas, and Patrick Mullaly
Alexander Rich, M.D., the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give the 2008 John T. Edsall Lecture on Thursday, November 13. …
Erin O'Shea, and Harold Kim One of the main challenges in the postgenomic era is to understand how genetic information is translated into quantitative transcriptional output. Transcription factors…
Co-authors (left to right): Hongkai Ji, Steven Vokes, Andrew McMahon and Wing H. Wong The vertebrate limb has been one of the central models for understanding the problem…
