The Bacterial Movie Theater of Professor Howard Berg shows nothing but action films. Harking back to the early days of motion pictures, these movies are silent and shot…
David Scadden (left) and Doug Melton (photo by Martha Stewart, marthapix.com) A new institute designed to advance stem cell research held its inaugural symposium on April 23. The…
Jennifer A. Doudna "Understanding how RNA molecules carry out chemical reactions may help us make connections between an earlier, primordial RNA world and what we see in modern…
Harvard Stem Cell Institute codirectors Doug Melton (left) and David Scadden (right). (Photos by Stu Rosner and Justin Ide/Harvard News Office, respectively) A new center established to advance…
Thomas Jessell The annual John M. Prather Lectures in Biology will showcase the work of Thomas Jessell, a Columbia University Medical Center neuroscientist who has spent many years…
MCB members of the Stem Cell Collaboration (from left to right): Jocelyn Atienza, Chad Cowan, Doug Melton, Jill McMahon and Andy McMahon March 3, 2004 was a milestone…
Craig Hunter has been named a Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at MCB. Hunter, who has taught at Harvard since 1997, studies the molecular pathways through which…
The field of microbiology, pulsing with new excitement, has become a magnet for scientists from such varied disciplines as earth and planetary sciences, evolutionary biology, environmental microbiology and…
"I am thrilled that I will be supported by the Wyman Fellowship to do my work," says Dr. Jin (l .), in the lab with Dr. Rachelle Gaudet…
Josh Sanes Jeff Lichtman GALLERY(click on image to see large version) The synapse is where the magic happens. Information zaps across the synapse from one neuron to the…
