All cells need to sense and respond to different stresses in their local environment in order to survive and grow, and bacteria are certainly no exception. The model…
Diverse cellular and developmental processes are controlled by reversible phosphorylation – the process by which phosphates are added or removed from proteins. Reversible protein phosphorylation is widely used…
Understanding brain function generally requires a deep engagement with the matter at least at two separate levels. These are the level of behavioral algorithms on the one hand…
MCB professor Joshua Sanes has won this year’s Gruber Neuroscience Prize; a valuable international award given by the Society for Neuroscience and funded by Yale University’s Gruber Foundation.…
MCB professor Hopi Hoekstra was recently inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), after being officially elected to the organization last year. The NAS is one of…
People frequently operate computer devices such as smartphones that collect user input and process this information to produce outputs on a display or through headphones. Engineers control how…
Yukiko Yamashita obtained her Ph.D from Kyoto University, Japan, completed the postdoctoral fellowship with Minx Fuller at Stanford University (2001-2006), She started her own laboratory at the University…
The genomes of most eukaryotic organisms, including humans, contain large amounts of repetitive DNA organized in the form of heterochromatin. As a result, this specialized chromatin state plays…
The cycle of day and night is one of the most recurrent and predictable environmental change on our planet. Consequently, organisms evolved mechanisms that give them an ability…
MCB professor Hopi Hoekstra was among the Harvard professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) this year. AAAS is one of the oldest honorary…
