Tag: Cell division

  • Nation & World

    Geneticist Stephen J. Elledge wins Breakthrough Prize

    Harvard Medical School geneticist Stephen Elledge won the 2017 Breakthrough Prize for unraveling the mechanism by which cells sense DNA damage and initiate self-repair.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sizing up bacteria

    A new theoretical framework outlined by a Harvard scientist could help solve the mystery of how bacterial cells coordinate processes that are critical to cellular division, such as DNA replication, and how bacteria know when to divide.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Rethinking mitosis

    The mitotic spindle, an apparatus that segregates chromosomes during cell division, may be more complex than the standard textbook picture suggests, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A focus on battling tuberculosis

    Scientists from around New England gathered at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to discuss the latest research and findings about tuberculosis at the Fifth Annual New England Tuberculosis Symposium.

    3 minutes