Recovery from injury to the mammalian brain or spinal cord is notoriously poor, and a big part of the problem lies in the limited ability of damaged neurons…
Scientists have long known that humans and other animals have a master biological clock situated in a deep brain region called the hypothalamus. In this master clock, cells…
This year’s Bloch Lecture will be given by Michael Rosbash, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Peter Gruber Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University. Originally interested…
The annual John M. Prather Lectures in Biology will be presented by Jane Lubchenco, a world renowned marine ecologist, the U.S. Science Envoy for the Ocean, and University…
(l to r) Mackenzie Amoroso, Jeremiah Cohen, and Nao Uchida Serotonin is one of the most widespread and mysterious neurotransmitters in the brain. It has been proposed to…
Read more in the Boston Globe, Harvard Gazette, on the Ed Portal website. Message from Rob Lue, MCB Faculty of the Practice and Faculty Director of Ed Portal…
(l to r) Howard Berg, Abhishek Shrivastava, and Pushkar Lele Bacterial gliding is defined as steady movement over a surface, of bacteria that have neither flagella nor pili. …
Christina Zimanyi hails from Big Bear Lake, a resort town in the mountains of Southern California, where as a youth she enjoyed just about anything other than the…
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The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce that Professor Hopi E. Hoekstra of MCB and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology has won…
