This claymation model shows how the Xenopus frog’s pre-mouth begins as a square, eight cells wide and high, and morphs into a two-cell wide by twenty tall column. As the larvae prepares to begin feeding, the two rows of cells unzip down the middle to surround the oral opening that connects the digestive system to […]

As it does every year, MIT stayed active throughout the summer months, welcoming tourists snapping shots of the Great Dome, campers playing tag on North Court, and students hoping to brush up their computer coding skills, in almost equal measure. For three weeks in July, 10 professors from Tunisia joined the crowds in the Infinite […]

WGBH-TV, producer of the acclaimed public television program NOVA, has released a video featuring Whitehead’s Hazel Sive and lab members discussing their recent work on mouth formation in developing frog embryo’s.