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

Jing-Ke Weng
Faculty Spotlight

Jing-Ke Weng

Associate Professor of Biology; Member, Whitehead Institute

Jing-Ke Weng studies metabolic evolution in plants and explores the remarkable plant chemodiversity for new commodity chemicals and medicines.

3 Questions with Seychelle Vos

Making medicine runs in the family

Harnessing the moonseed plant’s chemical know-how

Exploring How Cells Repair and Tolerate DNA Damage

Researchers discover an RNA-related function for a DNA repair enzyme

To be long-lived or short-lived?

Mary Gehring: Using flowering plants to explore epigenetic inheritance

A new way to regulate gene expression