HHMI - Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Janelia’s COSEM Project Team has created a set of tools to make annotated 3D images of cells, showing the relationships between different organelles.

HHMI Trustee David Julius of the University of California, San Francisco, and HHMI Investigator Ardem Patapoutian of Scripps Research won the prize for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.

The scientists come from 21 US institutions and will join a community of Investigators who are tackling some of the most challenging problems in biomedical research.

HHMI Investigator Leslie B. Vosshall, PhD, will become Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, effective March 1, 2022.

In a surprising new finding in mice, researchers have discovered that many genes linked to human cancer block the body’s natural defense against malignancies.

The program offers grants to groups historically underrepresented in the sciences. Here, past fellows share their experiences with the program and advice for applying.

A researcher with a personal mission to cure genetic muscle diseases has developed a more targeted and effective approach for delivering healthy copies of faulty genes into muscle cells.

When hungry worms encounter bad-tasting chemicals, they stop eating and spit. To make this switch possible, a muscle in their mouths does two different things simultaneously, splitting up its activity in a way that scientists have never seen before.