Peer Review | The Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago

SUMMER 2007 | VOLUME 5 | No. 2
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Kevin White $9 million NHGRI award to University of Chicago team will enable genome-wide discovery of the DNA sequences that regulate genes
The National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded $9.1 million over four years to a research team led by the University of Chicago to identify all regulatory elements, the DNA sequences that control when and where specific genes get turned on or off, in the fruit fly genome.

Best Graduate Schools Medical School, graduate bioscience programs move up in popular national survey
Two bioscience graduate programs—paleontology and ecology/evolutionary biology—were ranked the best in the United States, and the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine climbed from a two-way tie for 17^th to a three-way tie for 15^th in the latest U.S.News & World Report ranking of the nation’s best graduate schools.

Paddle Fish New genetic data overturn long-held theory of limb development
Long before animals with limbs (tetrapods) came onto the scene about 365 million years ago, fish already possessed the genes associated with helping to grow hands and feet (autopods) report University of Chicago researchers in the May 24, 2007, issue of Nature.