Using CRISPR technology, Whitehead Institute Member Jonathan Weissman is tracking the lineage of individual cancer cells as they proliferate and metastasize in real time.
Research technician Brittania Moodie has been leading virtual science workshops for rural students in her home country of Jamaica to help improve access to science education.
Researchers in the lab of Whitehead Institute Founding Member Robert Weinberg have determined how mesenchymal cancer cells may resist treatment, work that may allow them to make once-resistant tumors respond to certain cancer therapies.
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.
Jarrett Smith is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Member David Bartel’s lab investigating how cells respond to stress. We sat down with Smith to learn more about him and his experiences in and out of the lab.
Founding Member Harvey Lodish has been twice honored by the international science community for his path-breaking scientific accomplishments and intellectual leadership.
New research from the lab of Whitehead Institute Member Richard Young suggests that the products of transcription — RNA molecules — regulate their own production through a feedback loop
