Verma lab -- Keck Grant -- <i>Sepia officinalis</i> (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Verma lab -- Keck Grant -- <i>Sepia officinalis</i>

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Salk scientist receives $1.2 million grant from Keck Foundation to develop transparent tissues for diagnostics and therapeutics. The common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) achieves its glitter-like brilliance via reflectin proteins, which will be key to the Salk approach to making tissues transparent.

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