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When Sperm Give Up Their Secrets
A new window on sperm cells' ion channels could ultimately help control populations, human and otherwise. More
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Yeast For Thought
First in yeast, and then in laboratory creatures with nerve cells, researchers have discovered how the Parkinson's disease process may be curtailed. More
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Sharper Image
No consumer toy, here is a researcher's dream—a light microscope that goes where none has gone before, down to the level of individual protein molecules. More
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A New Scientific Community
A weeklong celebration of HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus began with a gala dinner and concluded with tours for the public. More
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Let The Science Begin
After six years and "hundreds and hundreds" of drawings, Janelia Farm design wizard Robert H. McGhee can finally allow himself a moment of satisfaction. More
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Briggs and McCleskey Join Institute
HHMI has appointed researcher and physician Josephine P. Briggs as senior scientific officer and neuroscientist Edwin W. McCleskey as scientific officer. More
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Expanding Her Horizons
An aspiring physician-scientist leaves the reservation and goes east to the Ivy Leagues—for herself and the folks back home. More
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The FARM Project: A Summer Science Workshop
For a week in July, 19 middle school students from Durham, North Carolina; Rochester, New York; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Cincinnati, Ohio, gathered at Duke University to participate in the HHMI-sponsored FARM (Finding and Researching Mycoacrobacteriophages) program. More
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A Sweet Solution to a Sticky Problem
Alzheimer's disease may one day be treatable by drugs based on a sugar already present in the human body. More
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Sugar Code-Busters
The sulfate groups that adorn sugar chains on cell surfaces appear to have functions both workaday and profound. More
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Monkey Feel, Monkey Do
Sensory perception involves not just one but many areas of the brain. More
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