Justin Chen, graduate student in Hazel Sive’s lab at Whitehead Institute, writes about his ...

Face Time Justin Chen | MIT School of Science January 2017 As a developmental biologist, I study how a single cell becomes a complete animal — how nature makes something from almost nothing. The ...

The teacher becomes the student

The teacher becomes the student Sarah McDonnell | MIT News Office September 2, 2016 As it does every year, MIT stayed active throughout the summer months, welcoming tourists snapping shots of the ...

PBS’s NOVA produces video of Sive lab research

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 ...

Jaw-dropping research explains mouth formation during embryonic development

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 ...