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Senior Editor Brendan Maher travels to Baltimore to visit the nearly 95-year-old Carnegie Institution of Washington embryology department, now situated in brand new digs on Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus.

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Feature: Peering into Carnegie

Research goes flat

Video: See the flatfish metamorphosis with commentary from Alex Schreiber

Top Ten Lists: Research from the Embryology Department

The Yale Embryo, circa 1934

A Poem on the Youngest Embryo by Elizabeth Ramsey

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