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A newly discovered class of molecules plays an astonishingly powerful role in biology.

Whitehead Member Terry Orr-Weaver is one of 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers have determined how a key developmental ingredient controls the genome.

Reddien is one of 15 scientists to be awarded the 2006 Searle Scholarship.

The prize is the largest awarded to cancer researchers by a professional society of their peers.

The protein ultimately responsible for mad cow disease might be necessary for healthy brain function.

Findings might aid research into therapies for human sufferers.

The same protein that causes neurodegenerative conditions such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) is also important for helping certain adult stem cells maintain themselves.

Researchers have discovered a way to multiply an adult stem cell 30-fold, an expansion that offers tremendous promise for treatments such as bone marrow transplants and perhaps even gene therapy.

Researchers analyzed the complete gene-expression profiles of both cloned and fertilization-derived stem cells in mice and concluded that the two are indistinguishable.