Uncovering the riches of traditional global medicine
Tomas’ paper on elucidation of kavalactone biosynthesis in Polynesian medicinal plant kava kava is published at Nature Plants. See the news release from MIT News here and NPR here.
Unusual labmates: Lighting up the lab
Unusual Labmates is a multimedia series exploring some of the uncommon species used for research at Whitehead Institute. The recent entry features fireflies, including the American species Photinus pyralis and the Japanese species Aquatica lateralis, which the Weng lab is using to better understand the ability to emit light. Click here to experience a multimedia story about fireflies, including how we rear them in the lab and what we hope to learn from investigating their biology.
Weng Lab welcomes three summer undergraduate researchers.
We warmly welcome Jeandele Elliot from Howard University, Uriel Garcia and George Yacoub from Williams College to carry out summer research in the lab!