Genetics

Genetics

genes • gene editing • heredity• evolution • genetic variability • phenotypic variability • horizontal gene transfer • meiosis • recombination • epigenetics • DNA repair and replication • chromosome segregation • cell division • gene regulation • development • aging • pathogenesis • cancer • disease

Siniša Hrvatin
Faculty Spotlight

Siniša Hrvatin

Assistant Professor of Biology and Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Professor; Core Member, Whitehead Institute

Siniša Hrvatin studies states of stasis, such as mammalian torpor and hibernation, as a means to harness the potential of these biological adaptations to advance medicine.

Cell fate choice during adult regeneration is highly disorganized, new study finds

Maintaining fertility requires uneven division of DNA

3 Questions: Daniel Lew on what we can learn from yeast about cell movement, communication, and shape

Focus on function helps identify the changes that made us human

Siniša Hrvatin Named a Searle Scholar

Gene-editing technique could speed up study of cancer mutations

Inaugural J-WAFS Grand Challenge aims to develop enhanced crop variants and move them from lab to land

Seychelle Vos and Hernandez Moura Silva named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars