In Print

Graham Ramsay

From Focus:
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Just before a cell divides, it pauses to make sure that each new daughter cell will receive a full set of genes. The cell waits while its molecular wranglers at opposite ends of the mitotic spindle lasso each replicated chromosome from either side. Then the cell splits into two new daughter cells. In a collaboration across several labs, two research teams have figured out how the cell puts restraints on cell division and then how it quickly lets the process go. The lead authors on the studies are Sashank Reddy (left), Michael Rape (right), and Frank Stegmeier.

Upcoming

HSPH Symposium

Andrew Spielman Memorial Symposium

Friday, May 25
12:30 p.m.

Speakers:
•Barry Bloom
•Dyann Wirth
•Richard Pollack
•Allen Steere

Lab Works

A multimedia site featuring Harvard Medical research.

Spotlight

HMS Alumni Week Schedule of Events
Alumni Week events will run from June 6 to 10, featuring a Class Day keynote from HMS dean Joseph Martin, who is stepping down from that post in July.

Student Scene

Graham Ramsay

A Navajo Farewell
For six years, Ellen Rothman has lived and worked on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. Now she and her family are packing up and moving to California, where she’ll join a free clinic in downtown L.A.

StudenTalk

Personal takes on issues inside and outside the classroom.

Science Progress

A new HMS site tracing paths to progress in health care through funding, science, and discovery.