Drug Prevents Post-Traumatic Stress-like Symptoms in Mice
June 05, 2013
When injected into mice immediately following a traumatic event, a new drug prevents the animals from developing memory problems and increased anxiety that are indicative of post-traumatic stress disorder. More

Genetic Engineering Alters Mosquitoes’ Sense of Smell
May 29, 2013
In one of the first successful attempts at genetically engineering mosquitoes, researchers have altered the way the insects respond to odors, including the smell of humans and the insect repellant DEET. More

Accelerated Search Identifies Drug Targets for Neurodegenerative Disease
May 29, 2013
Identification of a cell signaling pathway that affects the levels of the toxic protein responsible for the neurodegenerative disease SCA1 could lead researchers to new drugs. More

Malaria Parasites Communicate to Coordinate Behavior
May 15, 2013
Malaria parasites infecting human red blood cells send packets of information between cells to coordinate group activity. When the parasites are under stress, the communication increases their ability to develop into a new stage of the life cycle. More

Spontaneous Mutations Play a Key Role in Congenital Heart Disease
May 12, 2013
New research shows that about 10 percent of severe cases of congenital heart disease are caused by genetic mutations that are absent in the parents of affected children. More

HHMI Selects 27 of the Nation’s Top Biomedical Scientists
May 09, 2013
HHMI announces the selection of 27 HHMI investigators, representing 19 institutions. More

Rice Professors Receive Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation
May 01, 2013
Two bioengineering professors at Rice University have been named recipients of the 2013 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation. Rebecca Richards-Kortum, an HHMI program director at Rice, and an HHMI Professor, and her colleague, Maria Oden, are being honored for mentoring a new generation of inventors in developing life-saving health technologies for the world¹s poorest communities. More

HHMI Scientists Elected to National Academy of Sciences
April 30, 2013
Seven Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators, two HHMI-Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation investigators, two senior fellows at HHMI’s Janelia Farm Research Campus, three HHMI professors, and two members of the HHMI Scientific Review Board (SRB) have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. More

Scientists Make Insulin-Producing Cells Self-Replicate
April 25, 2013
Scientists have discovered a hormone that causes the body’s insulin-producing factories, beta cells, to churn out more of themselves. More

Finding a New Way to Manage Infections
April 25, 2013
Waging an immunological war against a pathogen is not the body’s only way to survive an infection. Sometimes learning to live with an invader can be just as important. More