This fiery golden wheel is an artery running through the thymus of a monkfish. The thymus is an organ in the lymphatic system that is a nursery for certain immune cells. The artery you can see here ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that HHMI Investigator Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of University of Copenhagen, and K. Barry Sharpless of Scripps ...

Three distinct classes of genome editing agents are known to work in mammalian cells. Nucleases like Cas9 act like molecular scissors that cut DNA sequences selected by scientists. Base editors are ...

The results are an early step. “We are hard at work trying to translate base editing technology into human therapeutics,” Liu says, but many hurdles remain. Safety, efficiency, and base editor ...

Student and faculty phage hunters at the 2014 SEA-PHAGES Annual Symposium at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. Credit: James Kegley Over the last seven years, thousands of undergraduate students have ...

A new tool edits mitochondrial DNA using a bacterial toxin protein split into two pieces. Proteins (orange rings) guide the two halves of the toxin protein (yellow bean shapes) to specific stretches ...

About Hanna H. Gray The Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program honors the contributions of Hanna Holborn Gray, PhD, over her 28 years of service as a trustee of HHMI. A former chair of the trustees, she was ...

An atlas of open chromatin in 100,000 mouse cells (illustration shown) may help researchers uncover clues about how cells mature, and how they contribute to disease. Credit: Andrew Hill (UW) This ...

What if you couldn’t move faster even when you wanted to? Researchers thought that the part of the brain that determines how fast we perform voluntary movements, such as walking across a room or ...

For their latest study, Kingsley, scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and an international team of collaborators started by sequencing the genome of an Alaskan freshwater ...

Shown here in three different colors are three of the neurons that provide visual signals to the compass in the fly brain. Each of these neurons spans the entire compass, producing a set of concentric ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists have developed a flexible method of programming cells to find and respond to molecular signals of disease. The highly customizable system, known as ...