Andy McMahonphoto © The Royal Society Andrew McMahon, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science within Harvard's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and a principal faculty of…
Authors Wen-Yee Choi, Antonio Giraldez (on screen), and Alex Schier MicroRNAs are small RNAs that bind to specific mRNAs and inhibit their translation. Hundreds of microRNAs are thought…
Perhaps you have had the experience of walking into a new environment, such as a Moroccan bazaar or a Chinese supermarket for the first time, and being struck…
Authors Jennings Xu, Catherine Dulac, and Tali Kimchi In rodents, as in most vertebrates, the social and sexual behaviors of males and females clearly differ. For example, female…
Professor Richard Losick (front row, center), Professor Catherine Dulac (far right), Dr. Michelle McMurray ’91 (second row, next to Professor Dulac) and the HHMI research students at the…
Jiangwen Zhang, Monica Carrasco, Eugene Makeyev and Tom Maniatis Cellular differentiation requires global changes in gene expression at both transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. Posttranscriptional regulation provides a mechanism…
Catherine Dulac The brain’s cognitive abilities fascinate most people in neuroscience, but Catherine Dulac is drawn to the non-cerebral, genetically encoded, instinctive behaviors on which an animal’s very…
Rachelle Gaudet Rachelle Gaudet has been selected to receive a Klingenstein Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences for 2007 for her project, "Structural biology of temperature sensing by the…
Wormopoly creators (left to right) Jacqueline Brooks, Casey Roehrig, Nina Rajpurohit and Deborah de Jong. Jessica Smith not pictured. Cookie-scope The 16th International C. elegans Meeting was held…
Authors Ben Allen (left) and Andy McMahon Hedgehog (Hh) proteins are secreted morphogens that act in a concentration depependent manner to shape numerous developmental processes. The effects of…
