Ralph Isberg recently joined the Jane Coffin Childs Board of Scientific Advisors. A professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology at Tufts, he has studied bacterial pathogenesis for decades, asking questions like, “How are intracellular […]
Dr. Joan Steitz, former Jane Coffin Childs Fellow and former Chair of the Fund, was recently honored with the prestigious Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science “for four decades of leadership in biomedical science […]
Caption: When human placental tissue (fluorescence microscopy image shown) is exposed to interferon-β, it develops syncytial knots, which appear as protruding bulges, not seen in healthy tissue. Credit: Yockey et al., Science Immunology (2018) Dr. […]
Caption: Chromosomes (stained red) align and attach to microtubules (green) in the mitotic spindle before cell division. Credit: Jason Stumpff Dr. Sue Biggins, a new member of the Board of Scientific Advisors, was the first […]
This image shows an example of defects in the development of the embryonic central nervous system in stored eggs that lacked the Fmr1 gene — stored being the key word, since un-stored eggs showed normal […]