(l to r) Nao Uchida, Sachie K Ogawa, William Menegas, Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida and Yoh Isogai Dopamine, originally referred to as a pleasure molecule, is now one of the…
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) recently selected Vlad Denic, a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, as the recipient of this year’s Early…
Andrew Murray is one of 15 new Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professors, selected from among applicants from 109 invited institutions. The prestigious HHMI Professorship Program provides a…
MCB Professors Andrew Murray and Jeff Lichtman have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The two are among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates…
The discovery of neural circuits underlying social behavior is among the most fascinating goals in modern neuroscience: the specific brains areas and neuronal subsets in which social…
Scientists in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) and Center for Brain Science (CBS) have launched a high-tech effort to map the brain’s “wiring diagram” and…
Unlike humans, most animals rely heavily on scents to collect information about their external environment, and in particular assess the friendly or not-so-friendly nature of encounters with other…
Vlad Denic has been around. He's lived in Belgrade and Baghdad. He went to college in New Zealand and did his graduate work in San Francisco. At…
Next time you recoil from a swarm of fruit flies in your kitchen, consider this: You and these hovering insects share an ancestral bond, dating back hundreds of…