Cell Biology

Cell Biology

cell division • organelle biogenesis and inheritance • cytoskeleton • signal transduction • cell motility • cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions • cell shape changes • metabolism • protein sorting and trafficking • cell wall and cell membrane biogenesis • nutrients and growth control

Troy Littleton
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Troy Littleton

Menicon Professor of Biology and The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Troy Littleton is interested in how neuronal connections form and function, and how neurological disease disrupts synaptic communication.

RNA editing study finds many ways for neurons to diversify

Alternate proteins from the same gene contribute differently to health and rare disease

Q&A: Picower researchers including MIT Biology faculty Sara Prescott join effort to investigate the ‘Biology of Adversity’

Neural activity helps circuit connections mature into optimal signal transmitters

Research Threads: One lab’s detective work reveals secrets of immortal cells

A more precise way to edit the genome

Little picture, large revelations

Inflammation jolts “sleeping” cancer cells awake, enabling them to multiply again