Kocher receives NIH Director's New Innovator Award
Princeton faculty members Sarah Kocher and Andrew Leifer are among 60 researchers nationwide to receive 2019 New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The... Read more
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Oct 02
2019
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Jul 22
2019
Sea slugs use algae’s bacterial ‘weapons factory’ in three-way symbiotic relationship
Delicate yet voracious, the sea slug Elysia rufescens grazes cow-like on bright green tufts of algae, rooting around to find the choicest bits. But this inch-long marine mollusk gains not only a tasty meal — it also slurps up... Read more
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Jun 17
2019
Brangwynne receives HHMI technology award for super-high-resolution microscopes
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded Clifford Brangwynne one of 40 Transformative Technology 2019 (TT19) Awards to create a shared research facility, NanoCIE:... Read more
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Jun 12
2019
Princeton researchers publish study on learned behaviors in C. elegans
Story by Caitlin Sedwick, Department of Molecular Biology Princeton University researchers have... Read more
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Jun 12
2019
Professors Devenport, Toettcher, and Gitai receive Schmidt Transformative Technology Funding
Story by Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research The... Read more
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Jun 12
2019
Wingreen wins President's Award for Distinguished Teaching
Story by Karin Dienst, Office of Communications Four Princeton University faculty members, including Ned Wingreen, the Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences and professor of... Read more
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May 28
2019
Artificial intelligence detects a new class of mutations behind autism
Many mutations in DNA that contribute to disease are not in actual genes but instead lie in the 99% of the genome once considered “junk.” Even though scientists have recently come to understand that these vast stretches of DNA... Read more
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Apr 19
2019
Wieschaus named fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research
The American Association for Cancer Research has elected Eric Wieschaus, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, as a fellow of the AACR Academy “for his Nobel Prize-winning identification of genes responsible... Read more