Biologist honored for his work developing yeast as a model organism for genetic studies.

Cryptographic system could enable “crowdsourced” genomics, with volunteers contributing information to privacy-protected databases.

Study in worms reveals gene loss can lead to accumulation of waste products in cells.

Chemical engineers discover how to control knots that form in DNA molecules.

Whitehead team analyzes transcriptomes for roughly 70,000 cells in planarians, creates publicly available database to drive further research.

New discovery suggests that all life may share a common design principle.

Study finds that major vault protein is needed for homeostatic plasticity.

With SHERLOCK, a strip of paper can now indicate presence of pathogens, tumor DNA, or any genetic signature of interest.

Whitehead Institute researchers are using a modified CRISPR/Cas9-guided activation strategy to investigate the most frequent cause of intellectual disability in males.

Department of Biology kicks off IAP seminar series with a lecture by synthetic-biology visionary George Church.