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A LASKER GOES TO . . . TOM MANIATIS, FORMER MCB PROFESSOR

Thomas Maniatis, a long-term colleague and former professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB), has won the Lasker Foundation’s Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical…

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SWITCHING ON BRAIN-SPECIFIC ALTERNATIVE SPLICING WITH A MICRORNA

Jiangwen Zhang, Monica Carrasco, Eugene Makeyev and Tom Maniatis Cellular differentiation requires global changes in gene expression at both transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. Posttranscriptional regulation provides a mechanism…

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IKΒ KINASE IKKΕ PLAYS CRITICAL ROLE IN ANTIVIRAL INNATE IMMUNITY

Left to right: Authors Benjamin tenOever, Tom Maniatis and Sze-Ling Ng Innate immunity is the first line of defense against infectious microorganisms. When we are infected by flu…

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TOM MANIATIS: GENE EXPRESSION, CLONING AND BEYOND

Tom Maniatis at Caltech, c. 1980 It was July 1976 and Tom Maniatis—long-haired and Birkenstocked—stood on the balcony of the Cambridge City Hall watching protesters who were calling…

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MANIATIS RECEIVES MILSTEIN AWARD

Tom Maniatis, Thomas H. Lee Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has been named a co-recipient, with John Hiscott of McGill University, of the 2003 Milstein Award. The…

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