“I believe that sometimes when you know exactly what you want to do in ten years, you should just do it now.” So says Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz, formerly…
Guanosine tetraphosphate and pentaphosphate, collectively known as (p)ppGpp or magic spot nucleotides, are effectors of the stringent response, a stress response pathway activated during nutrient and energy deprivation.…
Sometimes how you get where you’re going is as important as what you do when you get there. This is true of the proteins in our cells, whose…
To make a change, we must replace old with new: plow the field to seed new plants, abandon old habits to adapt new ones, and erase the board…
MCB Concentrator Alan Yang has been selected as a 2018 Rhodes Scholar. The prestigious and highly selective Rhodes Scholarship will support Yang as he pursues a master’s in…
Larry Gold will present the annual Doty Lecture, "Human Proteomics: From Biology to Chemistry to Big Data to Personalized Healthcare", at 12 noon on December 14, 2017 in…
Two MCB postdocs--Dhananjay “DJ” Bambah-Mukku of the Dulac Lab and Nicholas Tran of the Sanes Lab--have received fellowship funding from the National Institutes of Health in support of…
Harvard scientists are among dozens of researchers who will receive more than $150 million in funding over the next five years through the National Institute of Health’s Brain…
It is with a heavy heart that I share with you the sad news of the passing of Fotis Kafatos, our dear friend and former colleague. Fotis trained…
When selecting fluorescent proteins (FPs), it is standard practice to select FPs with the highest in vitro brightness. However, it is well-known that in vitro brightness does not…
