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...labs like this around the world, bad bugs are undergoing the ultimate rehabilitation, being transformed from life-threatening viruses and bacteria into lifesaving therapeutic agents. Using the tools of molecular biology, researchers like Russell are disguising and manipulating common microbes so that they will do good instead of harm. After all, nothing is better than a virus at evading the body's immune defenses and breaking into a cell. And nothing is better than a bacterium at producing deadly toxins that destroy a cell from the inside. "We can make a good anticancer agent," says Russell, "by harnessing and channeling...
Forty years later, scientists know a lot more about genes and proteins and how to target microbes so that they home in on one particular kind of cell--a cancer of the ovary, for example, or a tumor in the throat. They have also learned to affix molecular tracking devices to a microbe to ensure that when let loose in the body, it doesn't deviate from its therapeutic mission...
Associate Professor of Pathology David Sinclair, whose team discovered the group of genes responsible for aging, will direct the new laboratories. Sinclair’s lab is currently investigating the molecular pathways of calorie restriction, which they have shown increases the lifespan of flies and yeast...
Harvard College is adding some backbone to its molecular and cellular biology (MCB) department...
...discovery by Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Stephen C. Harrison and his post-doctoral fellow, Instructor in Pediatrics Bing Chen, is featured in an article in the Feb. 24 issue of Nature...