Articles tagged Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
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Judith Kimble, the recipient of the 2026 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, discovered the first stem cell niche—a finding that sets a path for her lab’s pioneering work in genetics.

2024 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Paul Sternberg’s decades-long discoveries in worm physiology, development, and behavior addressed fundamental mysteries in evolutionary biology, genetics, and systems neuroscience.

The Awards Audit Task Force describes their findings and outlines the future of the GSA Awards.

Ever since Charles Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection in 1858, biologists have been pondering exactly how selection works, somehow driving the evolution from single-celled life to the wide array of complex vertebrates that now populate the planet. As advances in technology have enabled genomic mapping at increasingly finer resolution, the questions have only…