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Laura Blanton is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Director David Page’s lab investigating sex differences in human health. We sat down with Blanton to learn more about her and her experiences in and out of the lab.

Whitehead Institute researchers have expanded their set of tools for investigating individual organelles, providing a new level of accuracy and detail to the study of cell metabolism.

When Whitehead Institute researchers don’t have the tools to answer their questions, they build them.

Plus three new directors are announced: Susan Hockfield, Dennis Langer, and Churchill Franklin

Weiskopf will be studying how existing FDA-approved drugs could be repurposed to reduce the severity and mortality of the disease.

Whitehead Institute is known primarily for biology — but there’s a little geology going on behind the scenes, too.

Eric Spooner knows his way around a protein. “I started in this field before proteomics became a word,” he says. 

Differently shaped RNA molecules allow HIV to express different genes from the same RNA sequence.

A family of enzymes in plants plays an important role in the production of many medicines. Whitehead Institute researchers discovered how the enzymes in this family diversified to produce so many different molecules, and demonstrated how this knowledge could be used to engineer novel plant-based medicines.