Whitehead Institute is a world-renowned, non-profit scientific institution dedicated to improving human health through basic biomedical research.
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A detailed map of this kind could help scientists pinpoint when things go wrong in birth defects, trace how cancer cells acquire the ability to spread or resist treatment, and better guide stem cells into mature, functional cell types.
Every cell in our body comes from 1 fertilized egg — & now we can trace that dev. #HHMIInvestigators Jonathan Weissman & Jay Shendure & teams have created new tools that generate maps of the origin & outcome of vast numbers of cells in a developing mouse: bit.ly/4dVhnhe
ALT Two stacked portraits. Top: HHMI Investigator Jonathan S. Weissman of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research smiles in a research lab, wearing glasses and a white lab coat with “Weissman” stitched on the chest. Pipettes and lab equipment fill the bench beside him. Bottom: HHMI Investigator Jay Shendure of the University of Washington smiles at his desk, wearing glasses and a gray collared shirt with a small clip-on microphone. Behind him are framed photos, a child’s drawing pinned to the wall, and a computer monitor displaying lines of green text on a dark terminal window.
We're bringing hands-on science to @MITMuseum's Cambridge Science Carnival this weekend. We look forward to seeing you there!
#cambrigdesciencecarnaval #mitfuturefest #BostonUncovered #funthingstodoboston
Two Whitehead Institute Members have received Bose Research Grants: Iain Cheeseman will study overlooked versions of known proteins linked to disease, while Siniša Hrvatin will explore how some animals survive freezing to advance cryopreservation.
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Toxoplasma gondii, the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis, can invade a host cell in less than a minute. New research out of Whitehead reveals that Toxoplasma doesn’t simply recognize a ready-made doorway into a cell. Instead, it helps create the conditions its entry.
Breaking and Entering: How #Parasites Prepare Host Cells for Invasion
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What happens when artificial intelligence (AI) makes its way into the lab? In a new @Nature feature, Whitehead scientists Kalon Overholt and Anna Pertl share how they're using AI as a tool for scientific discovery and why human expertise remains essential: tinyurl.com/mvbzemh2
Whitehead Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board brings together leading scientists to engage with our researchers and offer outside perspective.
Hear more from @HarmitMalik of @fredhutch and @UW about his decision to get involved with Whitehead: tinyurl.com/4pcntm6b
Messenger RNA carries genetic instructions that make proteins. But all RNA molecules are naturally sticky.
Now, Whitehead Institute researchers have discovered one way cells may have evolved to keep them from clumping together.
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Alum Alicia Zhou reflects on her journey from being at Whitehead Institute Founding Member Robert Weinberg’s lab to CEO of the Cancer Research Institute (CRI).
Read the full conversation: tinyurl.com/5dycamm3
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Excited to share our new preprint led by
@YiChenNeumann with incredible collaborators @labs_mann, @BenGewurz, @StephenE92884, and @hopfnerlab
to characterize the function of thousands of viral microproteins from human-infecting viruses! biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Excited to share my PhD work, now on @bioRxiv! 🎓🦠Viruses are packed with small ORFs with unknown function. At @JswLab w/ collaborators, we built a pan-viral microprotein atlas that uncovered the oncogenic activity of BNLF2b, an EBV gene linked to cancer.
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Lehmann Lab postdoc KangBo Ng has received a 2026 Robertson Foundation - Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship.
The award will support his research into how somatic and germ cells exchange resources during early development.
Congratulations, KangBo! #JCCFellow jccfund.org/blog/the-jane-co…
Weissman Lab postdoc Mohamed El-Brolosy has been named one of @fredhutch's eight recipients of this year’s Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award. Congratulations, Mohamed!
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The path from foundational biology research to life-saving therapies is often measured in decades. This year, that journey for one Whitehead discovery reached a remarkable milestone 1/4
This year, the experimental drug daraxonrasib, which targets Ras-driven cancers, has shown historic progress against pancreatic cancer — one of the deadliest and most difficult cancers to treat. Researchers call it the most significant advance in cancer treatment in 15 years 3/4
“I’ve also really valued the richly collaborative community, and being able to take a lot of risks in how I address the questions I have the opportunity to pursue,” says grad student Giselle Valdes, reflecting on her time at @MIT and Whitehead Institute.
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When I was in college @MITBiology, I worked in the @WhiteheadInst lab of the scientist, Bob Weinberg, who discovered the very first oncogene, ras. Decades later, a drug targeting ras has finally made historic progress in pancreatic cancer. A great moment.
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Wheat, rice & corn feed the world; #HHMIInvestigator Mary Gehring's lab has built a gene expression “map” of seed development in a plant model that could help improve crops' ability to withstand environmental stress: bit.ly/4u1p62y.
ALT Mary Gehring in her lab
Crops are facing increasing stress from heat, drought, and poor soil conditions. Now Whitehead researchers have created a gene expression “map” of seed development that could help guide future efforts to improve crop yield, nutrition, and resilience: shorturl.at/CLWq1
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Brit d’Arbeloff, Director Emerita of the Board and longtime supporter of the Institute. Her legacy is profound and includes advancing our efforts to understand of how sex differences influence health and disease.
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