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CCB Professor George Whitesides Receives ACS Priestley Medal

The award, the highest honour bestowed by the American Chemical Society (ACS), recognises a distinguished career spanning over 40 years. In this time Whitesides has generated over 900 papers and more than 50 patents. >>

MCB Places 1st and 2nd in CSHL Genome Research Poster Competition

The poster by Itay Yanai, a post-doc in the Craig Hunter lab, explores the degree of differences in gene expression between two organisms (C. elegans and C. briggsae) that are morphologically near-identical but genetically more different than human is to mouse. MCB also took 2nd place in the contest with a poster by Steve Vokes of the McMahon lab. >>

Former Arboretum Director Ashton Wins Japan Prize

Peter Shaw Ashton, the Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry Emeritus and former director of the Arnold Arboretum, has won the prestigious Japan Prize for his "significant contributions towards solving the conflict between human beings and the tropical forest ecosystem." >>

Chipping Away at Hedgehog-Mediated Neural Patterning

The Hedgehog signaling pathway represents one of approximately six major families of signaling pathways that dictate development in most bilateria. An especially interesting property of Hedgehog signaling is that it acts as a morphogen in the vertebrate neural tube, specifying the fate of several ventral neuronal sub-types in a dose-dependent fashion. >>

World's Largest Flower Evolved from Family of Much Tinier Blooms

The plant with the world's largest flower - typically a full meter across, with a bud the size of a basketball - evolved from a family of plants whose blossoms are nearly all tiny, botanists write this week in the journal Science. >>