Diversity in blood cell types diminishes with age | Research highlights

Catch up on exciting discoveries at Whitehead Institute. Researchers in the Cheeseman lab have created a new experimental system to better understand how protein complexes assemble to aid in cell division. Weissman lab researchers are tracing the lineages of blood cells, an approach that sheds light on how blood production changes as we age, and how those changes influence disease risk. Researchers in the Jain lab uncover how excessive DNA repeats lead to cellular dysfunction in repeat expansion disorders such as Huntington's Disease.
0:03 The Kinetochore: a complex assembly - Cheeseman lab
0:49 Tracing the lineage of blood cell types - Weissman lab
1:34 How DNA repeats junk up the cell - Jain lab
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