A Cross-Disciplinary Course on Biotech’s “Valley of Death”
July 16, 2018
Whitehead Member Harvey Lodish and MIT Professor Andrew W. Lo have created and taught a new interdisciplinary course designed to draw students from multiple backgrounds, including business management and finance, bioengineering and life sciences, healthcare, and public policy.
Video: How to boost the efficacy of the chemotherapy drug methotrexate
July 11, 2018
Naama Kanarek, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Whitehead Member David Sabatini, explains how new genetic tools are allowing insights into the sensitivity of cancer cells to methotrexate.
Video: Reducing the toxicity of the chemotherapy drug methotrexate
July 11, 2018
Naama Kanarek, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Whitehead Member David Sabatini, discusses some of the challenges of methotrexate chemotherapy treatment and how research might help address these challenges.
Sharpening the edges of cancer chemotherapy
July 11, 2018
Whitehead team deploys CRISPR tools to better understand and uncover ways of improving methotrexate, a popular chemotherapy drug.
In Memoriam: Arthur Brill
July 3, 2018
Whitehead Institute would not be what it is today had it not been for Arthur Brill’s early and long-term involvement with the Institute.
Transcriptional droplets provide evidence for new model of gene control
June 21, 2018
Whitehead Institute scientists have found evidence that the apparatus that transcribes DNA into RNA is concentrated into specialized droplets, or “condensates”, at genes that control cell identity.
Stem cell-derived Zika model suggests mechanisms underlying microcephaly
June 19, 2018
Infected microglia cells can ferry Zika virus to developing brain
To open science, destigmatize critique
June 18, 2018
Whitehead Visiting Scholar Jessica Polka's guest blog discusses sharing interim research products and destigmatizing critique.
Network of diverse noncoding RNAs acts in the brain
June 7, 2018
First known network consisting of three types of regulatory RNAs is identified
Ankur Jain Joins Whitehead Institute
June 5, 2018
Jain will investigate the biology of RNA aggregation
In Memoriam: Thomas Gochberg
May 31, 2018
The Whitehead Institute community is saddened to hear about the passing of longtime supporter, Thomas "Tom" Gochberg.
For New Whitehead Fellow Kristin Knouse, Basic Science Offers the Power to Ask an Unlimited Number of Questions
May 30, 2018
Kristin Knouse joins Whitehead Institute this summer as its newest Whitehead Fellow. She is a firm believer in the ability of basic science and clinical medicine to inspire and advance one another—and firmly committed to pursuing practical solutions through bench research. But it took her awhile to get there.