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Features

In demand and on the road
For Whitehead faculty, when duty calls, it’s often long-distance

Cell select
How fluorescence-activated cell sorting machines make their
rare findings

Getting into lab life
Researchers take different paths to careers in biology

A scientific method for spending
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts gets professional advice about sponsoring biomedicine

Broad jump
Whitehead spinoff institution moves to full independence

Departments

Research news
Genetically identical stem cells, cell growth opportunities, protein
diets for microRNAs and brains that take an unexpected bend

Community
Whitehead gains a fourth Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

Window on Whitehead: Advances at the Retreat
What happens at Whitehead's annual scientific retreat