Gregory Hannon
Molecular Biologist, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dr. Gregory Hannon is a molecular biologist and a Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, as well as an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research focuses on growth control in mammalian cells and post-transcriptional gene silencing. Dr. Hannon received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University in 1992.
The promise and thrill of discovery are what keep scientists going in spite of endless frustration.
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Doctors’ visits will soon include the sequencing of “at least part of your genome.” If scientists don’t clearly explain the reasons for this, they’ve failed the taxpayers who fund their […]
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Prolonged graduate education hampers promising careers, says Gregory Hannon. Better to give scientists hands-on experience early.
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As sequencing individuals’ genomes becomes cheaper and easier, how can we prevent the release of private genetic information onto the Web?
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Finding the common point of vulnerability that makes threatened cells collapse may help science overcome the troublesome uniqueness of human cancers.
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A bizarre facial tumor has decimated the Tasmanian devil population in recent years. Spurred by a worried grad student, Gregory Hannon set out to unlock the secrets of the disease.
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The use of RNA interference (RNAi) as a gene manipulation tool may revolutionize cancer treatment. What barriers must be overcome before it produces new therapies?
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From the “organized chaos” of Dr. Gregory Hannon’s laboratory, new ways of studying the evolution of cancer are emerging.
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A conversation with the molecular biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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