Teaching Teachers: Whitehead Institute Program Bridges the Gap Between the Lab and the Classroom
August 8, 2018
Whitehead Institute's monthly teacher series, which features the top minds in biomedical research speaking about their groundbreaking work, strives to inspire, educate, and empower high school biology instructors from the Greater Boston area.
The Y Chromosome: Holding steadfast in a sea of change
August 2, 2018
The lab of Whitehead Member David Page has examined a series of regions on the Y chromosome called amplicons.
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: Boosting the efficacy and reducing the toxicity 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 and discusses how research might help address some of the challenges of methotrexate chemotherapy treatment.
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.