Parsons Foundation Gives Caltech $665,950

Caltech has received a grant of $665,950 from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation to support research into the mechanisms by which a single-celled egg becomes a highly complex organism.

The grant brings the total amount of Parsons Foundation support for the project by biology professors Eric Davidson and Leroy Hood to nearly $1 million.

Their studies focus on the sea urchin. Researchers will isolate all or most of the gene regulatory factors in the creation of a sea-urchin embryo from an egg.