100 years biochemical sciences tutorial
Haim Sompolinsky, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Physics in Residence, has been awarded the 2026 Dirac Medal, one of the most prestigious international honors in…
How do plants that first appeared hundreds of millions of years ago produce molecules that may one day help treat human disease? That question is at the heart…
Congratulations to Virgil Guo ’28, a Statistics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) double concentrator, and Melany Hirsh ’27, a Neuroscience concentrator, who were among five Harvard College…
Sometimes, groundbreaking discoveries begin with what looks like a failed experiment. Researchers in the lab of MCB Professor Nicholas Bellono have discovered that octopuses possess a unique structural…
Wendy Valencia-Montoya, a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows affiliated with the lab of MCB Professor Nick Bellono, has been awarded two of the most coveted…
Rebecka Sepela, a postdoctoral researcher in Nicholas Bellono’s MCB lab, has received an NIH Pathway to Independence (K99/R00) Award to study how animals derive information from their external…
BioCamp's summer sessions have been a hit, with all modules now full except the August 3–14 Microbiology session, which still has a few openings. If you know a…
Two recent Harvard graduates with ties to the MCB department have been named recipients of the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholars fellowship at Stanford University, joining a global cohort of…
Several MCB-affiliated faculty members have been selected as recipients of the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research, one of Harvard's most prestigious internal funding competitions. The awards, administered…
Why do animals respond differently to the same social situation? According to new research from the MCB lab of Florian Engert, the answer may depend as much on…
