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RICHARD LOSICK ELECTED TO AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

"It’s really a great honor to have been elected," says Richard Losick. "It came as quite a surprise. I’m enormously flattered and I look forward to participating in…

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DEVELOPMENTAL COMMITMENT IN B. SUBTILIS

Richard Losick and Jonathan Dworkin In 1918, German embryologist Hans Spemann took an early newt embryo and removed some cells that were destined to become skin. He transplanted…

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STRUCTURE OF A BACTERIAL CENTROMERE

The figure shows a field of sporulating cells the outlines of which are stained red with a membrane strain. Red lines across the short axis of the cells…

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GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF SPORULATION IN BACILLUS SUBTILISElucidating the Program of Gene Transcription for a Single Differentiating Cell Type

The image shows a pair of adjacent sporangia each of which consists of a large mother-cell (green) and a forespore (circular chambers outlined in red). The green color…

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