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...

Tuberculosis remains one of the most important causes of human disease and death despite the introduction of...

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...

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 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)...

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

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

In the final part, the enzymology of the erythromycin polyketide synthase is discussed.

In the second part, the contributions of genetics and molecular biology on investigations into erythromycin...

Once it was thought that aging was just a random and haphazard process. Instead, the rate of aging turns out to be...