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Lights, camera, action: engineering shape-shifting starfish cells
An optogenetic method for controlling the movement of starfish oocytes has been developed, which could have applications for ...
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Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research became financially independent from MIT in 1982. The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research while fiscally independent is attached to MIT via ...
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Reduce body temperature to slow ageing, authors of new study say
Keeping cool could help stall the signs of ageing, going by tests on mice carried out by scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Whitehead Institute and Harvard Medical School.The ...
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Q&A: How ‘blast zone’ of gender politics is hurting research on women’s health
David Page’s bio reads like a history of science in the age of genomics. In 1979 he was the first student to work on what we now know as the Human Genome Project. He then became a fellow at the ...
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Peter Reddien
Regeneration of tissues and organs is one of the great unsolved mysteries of biology. Whitehead Member Peter W. Reddien works to shed light on that mystery through research on the planarian Schmidtea ...