John Flanagan is one of four researchers who have won this year’s António Champalimaud Vision Award, which recognizes their groundbreaking research into the connection between the eyes and the brain and its implications for novel vision therapies.
Axonal degeneration is frequently observed before the death of neuronal cell bodies in patients with neurodegenerative disorders including ALS and contributes significantly to neurological disability.
To initiate an immune response against pathogens, a small number of T cells within the polyclonal repertoire need to proliferate rapidly to generate large numbers of effector cells that can clear pathogens.
We congratulate faculty member Yang Shi, one of four members of the Harvard Medical School community who are part of this year’s class of national and international leaders elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A recent paper by Li et al. (Rapoport lab, with help from Hidde Ploegh’s lab at the MIT), reports a crystal structure of the active protein translocation channel, which had been a “holy grail” in the field.
This new work, by Katrin Svensson in the Spiegelman Lab and recently published in Cell Metabolism, has found a new function for Slit2, a protein secreted from beige cells.
