Tag: Samara Reck-Peterson

  • Nation & World

    Molecular motion in detail

    In a critical breakthrough in unraveling how molecular “motors” ferry proteins and nutrients through cells, Harvard scientists have produced high-resolution images that show how the chemical “foot” of dynein — one of the most complex, but least understood such motors — binds to microtubules, the cellular structures it travels on.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Struttin’ its stuff

    Harvard researchers have found that a tiny motor inside of us called dynein, one tasked with shuttling vital payloads throughout the cell’s intricate highway infrastructure, staggers, which is quite contrary to the regular, efficient poise of its fellow motors.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    NIH names Harvard Pioneers, Innovators

    Harvard faculty members comprise almost 20 percent of the 47 scientists nationally whose promising and innovative work was today recognized with the announcement of two grant programs through the National…

    6 minutes