Whitehead Institute Director Ruth Lehmann is the co-recipient of the 2020 Francis Amory Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in recognition of outstanding achievements in medicine and reproductive physiology.
In this video, six Whitehead Institute researchers share what they have learned from the living world, and why it's more important than ever to conserve it.
Whitehead Institute researchers have sequenced the male-determining chromosome of cattle — and found evidence of a “selfish” competition between sex chromosomes
In this video, learn about new findings from Whitehead Institute researchers including a potential way to make cancer drugs more effective, how malaria-causing parasites could become less susceptible to an essential drug, and how regenerating flatworms rewire their eyes to their brains.
Our researchers are investigating important questions about how organisms develop —How does one generation beget the next? How does a single cell give rise to a complex organism?—and, with the help of new tools and innovative approaches, revealing answers that give us a better understanding of the fundamental aspects of life.
It's Halloween all year long when you study bat stars. Discover how Whitehead researchers use these brightly-colored creatures to investigate the mysteries of cell division.
Whitehead Institute Member Pulin Li talks about how her lab engineers cells in Petri dishes to communicate with each other and form patterns, recreating processes seen in embryodevelopment—and how this work could eventually inform efforts to grow tissues in the lab.
