Biology
Why C. difficile infection spreads despite increased sanitation practices
New research from MIT suggests the risk of becoming colonized by Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) increases...
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Gerald Fink awarded the Genetic Society of America’s Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
February 3, 2020Gerald R. Fink, Whitehead Institute founding member and former director and professor of molecular genetics in...
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Singing for joy and service
February 1, 2020Swarna Jeewajee grew up loving music — she sings in the shower and blasts music that...
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Maurice Fox, professor emeritus of biology, dies at 95
January 30, 2020Maurice Sanford Fox, professor emeritus of biology and former head of the Department of Biology, passed...
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Testing the waters
January 27, 2020In 2010, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began restoring the Broad Meadows salt marsh in...
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Hacking life inside and outside the laboratory
January 21, 2020Jesse Tordoff makes cells form unusual patterns. “I have the coolest research project ever, which has...
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Putting a finger on the switch of a chronic parasite infection
January 20, 2020Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a parasite that chronically infects up to a quarter of the...
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With these neurons, extinguishing fear is its own reward
January 20, 2020When you expect a really bad experience to happen and then it doesn’t, it’s a distinctly...
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