Alexander Schier

HSCI Faculty ‘extraordinary’ innovation recognized by the NIH HSCI Principal Faculty members Jeffrey Macklis, Alex Schier and Brian Wainger were recently recognized ‘for exceptional creativity’ by the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. Jeff...

Alex Schier is the author of a recent study on the use of CRISPR to mark cells with a genetic barcode that can be used to track the development of cells and reconstruct their lineages. Photo courtesy of Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard Staff Photographer...

Harvard stem cell scientists have discovered a new signaling protein critical for embryonic development—the first such finding in more than a decade —by investigating RNAs that biologists hadn’t previously considered as generating proteins. The protein...