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David Allis, pioneer in epigenetics, to receive prestigious Japan Prize
Allis’s discovery that chemical “tags” bind to specific sections of histone proteins in order to activate or silence nearby genes has ignited the field of epigenetics, a relatively new area of study...
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Robert Darnell elected to National Academy of Sciences
Darnell, who focuses on understanding a group of rare brain diseases, the paraneoplastic neurologic disorders (PNDs), and how they arise in conjunction with immune responses to cancer, is one of 84...
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Charles Gilbert to receive Scolnick Prize for visual perception work
The prize, awarded by MIT’s McGovern Institute, honors outstanding achievements in neuroscience. It recognizes Gilbert’s work on visual perception and brain plasticity. More »
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Charles Rice to receive 2015 Robert Koch Award
Granted by the Robert Koch Foundation, the annual award is one of Germany’s most distinguished scientific prizes and honors extraordinary accomplishments in infectious disease research. It recognizes...
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Bonnie Bassler to receive the 2016 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
Bassler, of Princeton University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is being recognized for discoveries related to a molecular mechanism that allows bacteria to communicate with each other. The...
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