In this lecture, I discuss the challenges of designing new proteins that fold into a particular structure or perform...

In the second part of talk, I explore other clues that suggest that genomes are not at equilibrium. Some genes appear...

In Part 3: How chordates got their chord, Marc Kirschner (Harvard Medical School) discusses how the overall body plan...

In Part 2: Telling the back from the front or what the chordates invented, Marc Kirschner (Harvard Medical School)...

Further studies have shown that the NC cells which participate in facial skeletogenesis correspond to the...

Nicole Le Douarin shares her research on the role of the neural crest in skeletal development. The Q/C (quail/chick)...

In the third and last part of this lecture, I will introduce the model system we have developed to study animal...

In this second part of the lecture, I will briefly review the rich history of planarian research, followed by a...

All pathogens must acquire and assimilate nutrients from their hosts in order to grow and multiply -- our tissues are...

The principal obstacle to successful treatment of tuberculosis is the lengthy duration of current regimens, which...