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As we age, the immune system begins to weaken. This leaves us exposed to dangerous infections. But a new study offers hope: we may soon be able to reverse the trend.

Nearly one million people in the United States are living with Parkinson's disease, making it the second-most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's.

Kathrin "Kat" Kajderowicz, a PhD student in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Whitehead Institute, is studying how hibernation-like states for cells, organs, or even whole organisms could pave the way for new hypothermic therapies.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Weissman Lab, led by Dr. Irving Weissman, a professor at Stanford University in Pathology and Developmental Biology, will be working...

In 2003, the Human Genome Project finished sequencing every bit of human DNA, remembers MIT News. "Now, over two decades later, MIT Professor Jonathan Weissman and colleagues have gone beyond the sequence to present the first comprehensive functional map of genes that are expressed in human cells....

The Human Genome Project was an ambitious initiative to sequence every piece of human DNA. The project drew together collaborators from research institutions around the world, including MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and was final

A new CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function using a tool called Perturb-seq. The work was led by Jonathan Weissman and colleagues at MIT and the Whitehead Institute, and is free for other scientists to use.

The Human Genome Project was an ambitious initiative to sequence every piece of human DNA. The project drew together collaborators from research institutions around the world, including Whitehead Institute, and was finally completed in 2003.

Ten images have been selected as winners of the inaugural Andrew Olson Scientific Image Awards, presented by the Neuroscience Microscopy Service (NMS) and sponsored by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Carl Zeiss.

CRISPR-Based Cancer Cell Lineage Tracing Offers Insights into Drivers of Metastasis January 22, 2021 Source: Science Photo Library - Moredun Animal Health Ltd/Getty Images A new CRISPR-based method for tracing real-time cancer progression across thousands of cells has revealed novel insights into the rates, routes, and drivers of cancer metastasis. Using the lineage-tracing technique, Whitehead Institute member Jonathan Weissman, PhD, and colleagues were able to treat cancer cells in much the s...