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For Bacillus subtilis, Fate is Just a Game [Losick Lab]

Bacillus subtilis is a bacterium with many talents. Some cells devote themselves to exploration, abandoning their relatives to live as swimming ‘motile’ cells. Others instead choose a cooperative,…

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A Nobel Incubator: How a Single Floor in a Single Building Fostered Extraordinary Scientific Talent

A striking phenomenon in the biomedical sciences is that great scientists sometimes arise in clusters at a particular time and place that fosters outstanding scientific achievement.  Certain institutions,…

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For Want of a Template [Rich Losick and Jan Pero]

Rich came to Harvard from MIT in 1969 as a Junior Fellow, setting up shop on the third floor of the Biological Laboratories in space kindly provided by…

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When Bacteria Get Stressed [Losick Lab]

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…

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Phosphatases and Proteases are Distant Relatives [Losick and Gaudet Labs]

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…

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ESTABLISHING CELL FATE WITH A POLE-VAULTING PHOSPHATASE [LOSICK LAB]

Niels Bradshaw (l) and Rich Losick An important question in biology is how genetically identical cells activate different sets of genes. This is particularly perplexing for cells that…

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BACTERIA REMEMBER THE PAST WHEN DECIDING ABOUT THE FUTURE [LOSICK LAB]

Bacillus subtilis is a bacterium with many talents. Some cells devote themselves to exploration, abandoning their relatives to live as swimming ‘motile’ cells. Others instead choose a cooperative,…

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RICHARD LOSICK RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS HORWITZ PRIZE

The Department of Molecular abd Cellular Biology's Richard Losick, PhD, is one of three recipients of Columbia University’s 2012 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for discoveries related to the…

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