{"id":979,"date":"2009-03-30T22:20:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T02:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=979"},"modified":"2009-04-30T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:22:54","slug":"legs-flippers-and-fins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Legs, flippers and fins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Martin Cohn<\/a>!<\/p>\n

A University of Florida developmental biologist who has discovered the molecular building blocks that shape apendages \u00e2\u20ac\u201d from feet to flippers in different species \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is one of 50 researchers in the United States selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist.<\/p>\n

Martin Cohn is the only scientist in Florida to be selected for the competitive program. He joins researchers from 33 other institutions, including Stanford University, Harvard and Johns Hopkins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Martin Cohn! A University of Florida developmental biologist who has discovered the molecular building blocks that shape apendages \u00e2\u20ac\u201d from feet to flippers in different species \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is one of 50 researchers in the United States selected as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-fN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":762,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=762","url_meta":{"origin":979,"position":0},"title":"Bugs, Mercury and Hubble","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"University of Florida scientist have compared the mitochondrial DNA of several different arachnids in an effort to map out just far back these critters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ancestry goes. 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