A culture of tough but supportive scrutiny has propelled imaginative research at the nearly 95-year-old embryology department in Baltimore. Will a modern architectural makeover change the science?
By Brendan Maher
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 "That would have been impossible elsewhere," says Farber.
Farber had moved on to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. But, when he heard there was ...
