Peering into Carnegie

Spradling calls the venture a "perfect example" of the kinds of projects that would have little chance of success elsewhere. A current seemingly unfundable project continues in the basement of the Carnegie. Staff associate Alex Schreiber has been looking not at flat worms but at flatfishes, those odd bottom dwellers such as flounder and sole that start out just like any other fish with eyes on each side of their heads, but through the effects of a single hormone, undergo a craniofacial remodeling program that leaves them the most asymmetric vertebrates known on the planet. (see "2...