Current and recent members of the Van Vactor and Perrimon laboratories at HMS have created a transgenic resource to allow conditional analysis of in vivo functions for over 140 microRNA genes in Drosophila with spatial and temporal precision.
Using a combination of live cell imaging and single cell genome sequencing (Look-Seq), the Pellman laboratory has defined a mechanism for a new mutational process in cancer and congenital disease called chromothripsis (Zhang et al., Nature, 2015).
Congratulations to Tobi Walter, who was chosen from a group of 894 eligible applicants to be one of 26 newly-minted Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigators!
The National Academy of Sciences recently announced the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
On Thursday, April 23, 2015, Bruce Spiegelman, PhD, was awarded the 2015 InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of metabolic disorders.
Doubling the compete sets of chromosomes, or tetraploidy, occurs commonly during organismal evolution and also is frequent in disease states, such as cancer.
Neurons are among the most polarized cells in nature, having emerged more than a half-billion years ago in metazoans to receive, process, and transmit information.
