Richard Hynes, a pioneer in the biology of cellular adhesion, dies at 81
Lillian Eden
MIT Professor Emeritus Richard O. Hynes PhD ’71, a cancer biologist whose discoveries reshaped modern understandings of how cells interact with each other and their environment, passed away on Jan. 6. He was 81. Hynes is best known for his discovery of integrins, a family of cell-surface receptors essential to cell–cell and cell–matrix adhesion. He […] The post Richard Hynes, a pioneer in the biology of cellular adhesion, dies at 81 appeared first on MIT Department of Biology .