Authors Ayellet Segrè and Andrew Murray Life exists in an impressive variety of forms, but the processes responsible for generating all that variation typically take far longer than…
Woody Hastings (photo by Graham G. Ramsay) Professor J. Woodland (Woody) Hastings has been awarded the 4th annual Peter C. Farrell Prize in Sleep Medicine from the Harvard…
Co-authors Amy Wagers and Kevin Eggan One of the central dogmas of mammalian reproduction is that females are born with a fixed pool of meiotic germ cells in…
Left to right: Xi Chen, Jack Strominger and Konrad Krzewski Natural killer (NK) cells comprise a relatively small subset of lymphocytes (~15%). Nonetheless, they play a very important…
Bruce Stillman, left, President of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Tom Maniatis (photo by Gina Motisi) Tom Maniatis has been awarded an honorary degree from Cold Spring Harbor…
Milena Andzelm and Shelly Choo For the first time since 2000, there are two winners of the annual Henderson Prize. Milena Andzelm was recognized for her research on…
Markus Meister Can the closed eyes of an unborn baby produce messages that help normal brain development in the womb? It may seem strange to think so, but…
When animals meet, how do they distinguish friend from foe? Such determinations must be made quickly, since any delay could mean a missed opportunity, but also accurately, since…
Florian Engert Florian Engert, Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, is a recipient of the 2006 McKnight Scholar Award. The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience…
Richard Losick What if a famous professor came to you and offered to pay you to do research at a Harvard laboratory with one of the world’s most…
