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Coverage of Hadyniak et al. 2024 PLOS Biology paper

 
 
 
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Buttons and flies help biologists solve DNA mystery

"Across species, chromosomes are organized in the nucleus," said senior author Bob Johnston, a developmental biologist in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins. "Our work adds one piece to the puzzle of understanding how DNA is folded together to make sure that genes work properly."

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Human retinas grown in a dish reveal origin of color vision

Johnston's lab had been studying vision in flies. But Robert Johnston and Kiara Eldred saw a chance to try something much more ambitious.

"We discussed this crazy idea of: Could we use these human retinal organoids to study how we get the different color-sensing cells in our eyes?" Johnston says. Using human cells was key because you can't study how humans see color in a fly, or even a mouse.

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'Eye-ball in a test-tube' could reveal the secret of how we see in color and cure some forms of blindness

Biologists at Johns Hopkins University grew the human retinas from scratch to determine how cells that allow people to see in color are made.

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Bob Johnston is named Pew Scholar for health sciences work

Robert J. Johnston, an assistant professor in the university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, was selected to the 2014 Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. He is one of 22 biomedical scientists to receive this year's award.

Coverage of Viets et al. 2019 Dev Cell paper

 
 

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