Genetics

Picower-led team pinpoints gene key to Alzheimer's-like reversal

Success in restoring memories in mice could lead to human treatments

May 6, 2009

Making waves in the brain

Researchers use lasers to induce gamma brain waves in mice

April 26, 2009

Cilia inside the human trachea. Scanning electron micrograph.

Analysis knocks down theory on origin of cell structure

Genomic tools show cilia probably did not originate as separate organism

April 22, 2009

Making picky proteins

New computer model can design specific protein interactions

April 15, 2009

Physics postdoctoral fellow Jeff Gore, left, and physics professor Alexander van Oudenaarden are harvesting yeast cells for experiments exploring the evolution of cooperation.

The games microbes play

Game theory study in yeast shows how cooperative behavior meshes with evolutionary theory

April 6, 2009

Angela Belcher holds a display of the virus-built battery she helped engineer. The battery --Â the silver-colored disc --Â is being used to power an LED.

New virus-built battery could power cars, electronic devices

April 2, 2009

Q&A with Richard Hynes on stem cell funding

March 18, 2009

Lifting the ban

March 10, 2009

Whitehead Institute researchers reprogrammed human skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state. After removing the reprogramming genes, the scientists used these so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to create dopamine-producing neurons, the cell type that degenerates in Parkinson's disease patients.Â To confirm that the iPS cells had become dopam...

Potential cancer-causing genes removed from engineered stem cells

Whitehead work involved reprogrammed skin cells from Parkinson's patient

March 5, 2009

Multiple genes implicated in autism

Discovery could lead to drugs targeting gene interactions

February 9, 2009

The image on the left shows a sample from a normal prostate, with organized cells lining the O-shaped ductules. Â Mice without theÂ PTENÂ gene had developed cancer, which is characterized by enlarged glands and disorganized cells clogging the ductules (middle image). Â When mTORC2 activity is blocked in mice lacking the PTENÂ gene, the prostate ductulesÂ resemble the appearance of norm...

Preventing prostate cancer the complex way

February 2, 2009

Study links genetic, environmental causes of Parkinson's

February 1, 2009

The Graybiel Lab caused Parkinson's disease in rats by depleting dopamine in the right side of the striatum, the brain region that drives the abnormal movements in the disease, leaving the left side as the control. Treating the rats with L-DOPA induced dyskinesia...

What causes motor complications of Parkinson's treatment?

MIT study identifies genes linked to key side effect; work signals new approaches

January 29, 2009

Chemistry graduate student Weerawat Runguphan, left, Sarah E. O'Connor, Latham Family Career Development Associate Professor of Chemistry, rear, and chemistry graduate student Peter Bernhardt, right, in lab where they genetically engineered periwinkle plant cells.

Chemists engineer plants to produce new compounds

Periwinkle plant cells could synthesize potential drugs

January 18, 2009

Do-it-yourself biology: Learning to build a better microbe

January 13, 2009

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