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Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology’s most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an unprecedented window into this activity, an advance that has the...

Two new studies represent a big step toward developing innovative molecular therapies capable of disrupting the uncontrollable growth of cancers at their roots. In a pair of papers recently published in Nature, a team of scientists led by Harvard’s...

Brian Liau, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at CCB, has been awarded the 2025 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry. The award is presented annually by the American Chemical Society’s Division of Biological Chemistry and recognizes...

Brian Liau, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is one of ten recipients of the 2022 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award for his research: "Investigating allosteric mechanisms regulating DNA methyltransferase enzymes." Liau recieved...

For many, replacing 2020 with 2021 on calendars, to-do lists, and personal checks (and in our minds) comes with a sigh of relief—however short-lived. But, despite the year's massive (and necessary) influx of research and stories on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2...

Harvard students, alumnae work to inspire next generation of diverse female scientists By Juan Siliezar Kaelyn Brown has wanted to be a scientist since she was 6, and the dream stuck with her through grade school. Today the senior neuroscience...

CCB's Lu Wang and Brian Liau honored for advising Harvard College’s Advising Programs Office awarded 12 advisers from across the University with the prestigious Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising. The Star Prizes were established by James A...

Brian Liau earns a Star Family award for exemplary intellectual and personal guidance of undergraduate students Every year, the Harvard College Advising Office awards their prestigious Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising to 12 advisors across the...

Liau is one of 12 early career researchers honored for fighting cancer through innovation On Tuesday, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced the 2020 winners of the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award. Only a dozen United States-based...

From gut microbes to ultracold atoms, here are the stories that got the most attention in 2019 With the year's end in sight, we're taking one more look back. Below is the top ten list of the department's most read stories from 2019. But wait! Now's your...