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David Liu receives Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science

Liu was honored for pioneering an exciting new class of precise and effective gene-editing technologies.

Photo of Professor David Liu standing on stage with an illustration of CRISPR editing DNA behind him

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NEW RESEARCH: Cracking the code of ‘what the nose knows’

CCB team has unveiled a comprehensive map of how the primary olfactory system detects and organizes social and predator odors.

New Zhuang Lab paper, via Cell.

Combined maps of odorant receptor (OR) expression in the olfactory epithelium and of the projections of olfactory sensory neurons expressing a given OR into the olfactory bulb (OB) identified by MERFISH. Courtesy of Bogdan Bintu, Ph.D. ’21/Dulac Lab, Zhuang Lab

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