Biological Sciences

This interview originally appeared on the OURS website.

Cathy (she/her) is a 2025 SURF L&S researcher majoring in Molecular and...

Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they’re often dismissed as an uninteresting consequence of packing an unusually large brain into a too-small skull.

But neuroscientists are finding that these folds are not mere artifacts, like the puffy folds you get when forcing a sleeping bag into a stuff sack. The depths of some of the smallest of these grooves seem to be linked to increased interconnectedness in the brain and better reasoning ability.

In a...

This interview originally appeared in the MCB Spring 2025 Transcript newsletter.

Since joining MCB’s faculty in 2023, Assistant Professor Bronwyn Lucas has had a productive two years:...

In a medical first, doctors raced to create a bespoke CRISPR gene therapy for a boy born with a deadly genetic disease and delivered it to him a mere six and a half months after birth.

The CRISPR treatment was administered safely, and the infant is now growing well and thriving, his doctors say. They hope that the treatment will make a liver transplant, which is usually required for survival, unnecessary for him.

The boy inherited two mutated genes that prevented him from breaking down the proteins in his food, which leads to a build-up of ammonia that destroys the liver and...