HHMI - Howard Hughes Medical Institue

After creating mutant Indian jumping ants with no sense of smell, HHMI Investigator Danny Reinberg and colleagues saw profound abnormalities in the ants’ behavior and brains. 

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has selected 39 new Gilliam fellows, exceptional doctoral students who have the potential to be leaders in their fields and the desire to advance diversity and inclusion in the sciences.

This series of feature profiles shines a light on the individuals behind HHMI’s science and offers a window into what drives them – in the lab and beyond.

The Inclusive Excellence initiative aims to help increase the capacity of colleges and universities to effectively engage all students so that they can be successful in science.

By mixing up cellular taste sensors in mice, HHMI Investigator Charles Zuker and colleagues show how the taste system continually remakes itself.

A queen bee may produce as many as 60,000 offspring during her lifetime.

The Medical Research Fellows Program allows exceptional MD, DVM, and DDS students to shift course and conduct rigorous research at top institutions throughout the US

The Associated Press and HHMI announce yearlong collaboration on two pilot projects designed to expand AP’s science journalism.

A pluteus larva of the sea biscuit, Clypeaster subdepressus, an echinoderm closely related to sea urchins.

Lose or gain a chromosome, and a cell gambles with fate.

HHMI investigators Stephen Elledge, Roel Nusse and Huda Zoghbi are honored for transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life.

The caterpillar of the spicebush swallowtail butterfly (Papilio trollus) mimics the rough green snake (Opheodrys aestivus).

A drawing, made by Santiago Ramón y Cajal of pyramidal neurons in the cerebral cortex of a rabbit, documented the presence of dendritic spines on the surfaces of some of the cells.

HHMI, the Simons Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announce the selection of 84 Faculty Scholars, early-career scientists who have great potential to make unique contributions to their field.

The microtubules inside cardiomyocytes buckle when the heart contracts.

The stomata of grasses (singular stoma) function more efficiently than those of other plants.

Two species of lionfish, the red lionfish (Pterois volitans) and the common lionfish (Pterois miles), have been established as invasive species off the East Coast of the United States and in the Caribbean.

As few as eighteen of these norovirus particles are sufficient to infect one person.

A section of stained human skin bearing a red tattoo.