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Whitehead Institute

Six School of Science faculty appointed to named professorships

June 20, 2014

Clockwise from top, left: Tanja Bosak, Laurie A. Boyer, Iain M. Cheeseman, Jacob Fox, Jeroen Saeij, J. Taylor Perron, Paul O'Gorman, and Jonathan Kelner

Eight School of Science faculty members granted tenure

May 29, 2014

To produce yeast strains that would reveal the effects of different types of mitochondria on heritability, MIT and Whitehead Institute researchers developed a technique for temporarily fusing yeast cells, letting themitochondria of one migrate to the other.

It’s in the genes — but whose?

Genetic material hitchhiking in our cells may shape physical traits more than we thought.

May 12, 2014