Cech shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman and served as HHMI’s president from 2000 to April 2009. The long, thread-like DNA molecules that carry our genes are packed ... but ...

HHMI researchers find that a gene that blocks the differentiation of pigment-producing ... In addition, the wild mice are closely related to lab mice, for which a variety of genetic and genomic tools ...