Video Gallery

Monkeypox: An emerging disease in the "hot zone"
Whitehead Fellow Kate Rubins
From an interview on New England Cable Network (NECN)
May 8, 2008

[view at Museum of Science web site]  

What is Systems Biology?
Whitehead Fellow Hui Ge
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
April 28, 2008

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Mapping a New Frontier: Human Regulatory Circuitry
Whitehead Member Rick Young
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
January 7, 2008

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Measures and countermeasures: Virus-host interactions
Whitehead Member Hidde Ploegh
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
November 19, 2007

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The dynamics of cancer research: What's next?
Whitehead Member Robert Weinberg
From the Silver Anniversary Board of Associates Colloquium
November 10, 2007

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Egg or sperm: What's sex got to do with it?
Whitehead Member David Page
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
October 29, 2007

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Regeneration in planaria
Interactive presentation on how tiny flatworms can create a new head or tail
From the Whitehead exhibit at the MIT Museum
October 2007

[interactive presentation]

Protein misfolding: A universal problem
Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist discusses studying misfolded proteins
From the Whitehead exhibit at the MIT Museum
October 2007

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How evolution reused its inventions
Whitehead Member Peter Reddien discusses studying regeneration
From the Whitehead exhibit at the MIT Museum
October 2007

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Creating a community of discovery
The founding of the Whitehead Institute
From the Whitehead exhibit at the MIT Museum
October 2007

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Unexpected interface: Proteins and evolutionary change
Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
March 20, 2007

[view at WGBH website]  

Simple solutions to complex problems
Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
March 5, 2007

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Growing blood-forming stem cells in culture—implications for human medicine
Whitehead Member Harvey Lodish
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
February 12, 2007

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On being the right size
Whitehead Member David Sabatini
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
November 13, 2006

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Broken chromosomes: The good, the bad and the ugly
Whitehead Fellow Andreas Hochwagen
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
October 30, 2006

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Under the hood: A beginner's guide to the molecular motor
Whitehead Fellow Paul Wiggins
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
May 22, 2006

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How cancer begins
Whitehead Member Robert Weinberg
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
March 27, 2006

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A new technique for creating stem cells may ease ethical concerns
Examines pioneering work by Whitehead Member Rudolf Jaenisch
From NOVA scienceNOW
January 10, 2006

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Stem cells: you can't always get what you want
Rudolf Jaenisch, Member, Whitehead Institute
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
December 19, 2005

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Small RNAs that silence genes
David Bartel, Member, Whitehead Institute
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
June 20, 2005

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The next anthrax attack
Gerald Fink, Member, Whitehead Institute
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
May 9, 2005

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A community for discovery
Travel back to 1987 for a peek at a day in the life of Whitehead researchers.

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Ride the protein roller coaster
Whitehead's Bioinformatics and Research Computing Group has put together a QuickTime animation that zips you around a sample protein and delves deep into its structure.

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Form from the formless: the awesome power of the embryo
Hazel Sive, Member, Whitehead Institute
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
March 21, 2005

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Cancer breakthroughs
Robert Weinberg, Member, Whitehead Institute
From CBS-4
October 18, 2004

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High-throughput drug discovery
Susan Lindquist, Member, Whitehead Institute
From a 2004 microdocumentary film series sponsored by Technology Review Magazine.

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Engineering new attacks on disease
Richard Young, Member, Whitehead Institute
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
May 10, 2004

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Nuclear cloning and cell therapy: fact and fiction
Rudolf Jaenisch, Member, Whitehead Institute
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
April 27, 2004

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Are we as crazy as mad cows?
Susan Lindquist, Member, Whitehead Institute
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
March 29, 2004

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The evolution of sex: rethinking the rotting Y chromosome
David Page, Member, Whitehead Institute
From the Director's Lecture Series for Non-Scientists
December 8, 2003

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