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MIT senior Pei-Hsin Lin was one of the conference attendees.

Student dives into conference

September 12, 2001

Researchers from around the world gathered at the Capsis Hotel in Crete to discuss exciting new applications for peptides, the designer materials of the future. MIT participants included (front row, left to right) senior Pei-Hsin Lin, postdoctoral associates Kimberly Hamad and Wonmuk Hwang, Professor Alexander Rich and conference co-organizer Shuguang Zhang, associate director of the Center for Bi...

Peptide/protein self-assembly applications touted at conference

September 12, 2001

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Susan L. Lindquist elected new director of Whitehead

August 15, 2001

Graduate student Peter Reddien (left) and Professor Bob Horvitz of biology made a discovery about programmed cell death in C. elegans roundworms.

Researchers find active new role for cell 'undertakers' in cells deaths

July 18, 2001

Study shows normal-looking clones may be abnormal

July 18, 2001

MIT researchers find active new role for cell 'undertakers' in cell death

July 11, 2001

Artificial enzyme able to synthesize RNA in Whitehead lab

June 13, 2001

Finding speeds discovery of disease genes, population history

June 6, 2001

Biology department recognizes five

June 6, 2001

Scientists build better mouse model for cancer

May 9, 2001

Jaenisch makes public case against human cloning

April 4, 2001

Nobelist David Baltimore (standing) a former MIT faculty member who is now president of Caltech, shares a laugh with biology faculty members (left to right) Richard O. Hynes, director of the Center for Cancer Research; Alexander Rich; and H. Robert Horvitz. Dr. Baltimore was on campus to give the Howard Hughes Lecture in biology.

Baltimore chats with MIT biology students and faculty during visit

April 4, 2001

Genes for early sperm production found to reside on X chromosome

April 4, 2001

Postdoctoral associate Heidi Tissenbaum and Professor of Biology Leonard P. Guarente survey data on their work with roundworms (an image of one hangs on the cabinet next to Dr. Tissenbaum) that lived 50 percent longer than usual.

Long-lived worms may offer clues for boosting longevity in humans

March 14, 2001

Professor of Biology Eric Lander describes scientists' labors that led to a draft sequence of the human genome.

Lander celebrates genome milestone in heavily attended talk

February 28, 2001