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Silicon Valley's leading technological minds announced on Wednesday $33 million in science prizes, trying to ensure that creative ideas on how to cure incurable diseases will be well-funded well into the future. The creators of this new "Breakthrough...

Cambridge, Mass. - Whitehead Institute researchers report that common assumptions employed in the generation and interpretation of data from global gene expression analyses can lead to seriously flawed conclusions about gene activity and cell behavior...

The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia today named Whitehead Institute Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch one of eight 2013 Laureates--esteemed individuals honored for their pioneering achievements in science, technology, and business leadership.

The School of Science is pleased to welcome six new faculty members for Fall 2015. Brief biographical sketches for our new colleagues are listed below. Angie Capece (Assistant Professor of Physics) is an experimental physicist specializing in plasma...

The Wellcome Trust is widely known as a large research funder, but it’s the people that make us what we are. Our Researcher Spotlights introduces you to some of the great people that we fund, so you can get a better idea of the real lives...