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What's the Difference Between You and a Genius? About $500,000

Oct 02, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation announced its 2007 Genius Awards and blogger PhilipJ at Biocuriosities points out the biology-related fellows. Caltech's Michael Elowitz studies cell's gene networks and is a 2007 awardee. Another fellow is Paul Rothemund, who works on DNA nanostuctures (which are featured in this month's Genome Technology Blunt End).

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