HHMI Bulletin
[ Vol. 24 No. 1 ]
FEATURED
The Next Generation

Experienced researchers have figured out how to find and train the most promising postdocs.

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In This Issue

Eyes Wide Open
 
with interactive
Hope Floats
 
with video
Behind the Curtain
 
with video
Right Before Your Eyes
 
with sidebar
Skin Sense
 
with slideshow
When Worlds Collide
 
Harboring Seals

There’s no way Katjuša Brejc could take home a seal. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t get attached.

Curved Wings

The pivot between art and science started early for Bertalan Andrasfalvy.

Lost Mountain

In the final push to the 11,000-foot summit of Mount Perdido, climbers face a treacherous half-mile-long incline of snow and ice.

Road Warrior

Spreading the word that research is doable is in Mike Yerky's DNA.

Enforcing Order
Changing the spatial arrangement of molecules in a cell can alter their functions.

Articles

Forgetting Fear

A compound given at just the right time may make mice forget to be afraid.

Warming Malaria

Climate change is expanding the disease-causing pathogen’s comfort zone.

Releasing the Brakes on Cell Fate

Removing one transcription factor allows others to drive cellular destiny.

Perspectives & Opinions

The Internet Age

Increasing science literacy one webpage at a time.

Crucibles of Dynamism

Puzzling pockets of redundancy account for about 5 percent of the human genome. 

President's Message

The Postdoc Apprenticeship
by Robert Tjian, Ph.D.