Tag: Erin O’Shea

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard biologist is first woman to lead HHMI

    Erin O’Shea, the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named the sixth president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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  • Science & Tech

    Basic understanding of biological clock advances

    Writing this week in the journal Science,  researchers at Harvard describe what causes a trio of proteins, if placed in a test tube with the common biochemical fuel ATP as a source of phosphate, to function as a minimalist biological clock of sorts, maintaining an accurate circadian rhythm for long periods of time. The new…

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