We congratulate Dr. Robert V. Farese Jr., Professor of Cell Biology at HMS, who was named Chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, effective January 1, 2019.
Congratulations to Dr. Min Luo, a postdoctoral fellow in the Liao lab, who recently received the 2018 Outstanding Postdoc Fellow Award for the Department of Cell Biology!
The cellular activities of ribosomes, the molecular machines that synthesize proteins, regulate gene expression during many physiological processes such as blood cell differentiation.
The Yuan Lab has discovered a molecular link between aging and two major neurodegenerative diseases: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
Type I CRISPR-Cas system features a sequential target-searching and degradation process on double-stranded DNA by the RNA-guided Cascade (CRISPR associated complex for antiviral defense) complex and the nuclease-helicase fusion enzyme Cas3, respectively.
