Karen Hopkin | Mar 1, 2011 | 9 min read
By Karen Hopkin Ready, Reset, Go Rudolf Jaenisch enjoys climbing mountains, rafting rapids, and unraveling the secrets of pluripotency—knowledge that could someday lead to personalized regenerative medicine. RUDOLF JAENISCH Professor of Biology, MIT Member, Whitehead Institute F1000 Head of Faculty, Genomics & Genetics Porter Gifford It was a misbehaving virus that drew Rudolf Jaenisch to epigenetics. As a postdoc in Arnold Levine’s