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Whitehead Institute is a world-renowned, non-profit scientific institution dedicated to improving human health through basic biomedical research.
Cambridge, MA, USA wi.mit.edu Joined September 2012
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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.
HHMI Verified account @hhmi_science Oct 8
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
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.
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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.
newswise @newswise Sep 29
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
www.nature.com AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done Nature - Artificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data — but humans still need to decide what makes sense.