HHMI - Howard Hughes Medical Institue

With the development of an adaptive, multi-view light sheet microscope and a suite of computational tools, researchers have captured the first view of early organ development inside the mouse embryo.

HHMI is hosting an open, international competition to decide Janelia’s next research area. If you have a big idea that addresses a major unsolved problem in the life sciences, submit a proposal to lead our next research program.

By combining genomics and gene editing, researchers have figured out how to rapidly bring a plant known as the groundcherry toward domestication.

The roundworm C. elegans is sensitive to DEET’s insect-repellent effects. The discovery opens up a new genetic toolbox that scientists can use to figure out how DEET works.

HHMI announces the selection of 15 exceptional early career scientists as 2018 HHMI Hanna Gray Fellows to support diversity in science. The 2019 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition is now open, with applications due on January 9, 2019.

Lasker Award honors leadership in RNA biology and in scientific mentorship.

In a Nature Comment piece, HHMI leadership, with colleagues at ASAPbio and the Wellcome Trust, call on journals to sign a pledge to make reviewers’ anonymous comments part of the official scientific record.

Epithelial cells grown on a plastic dish are worse at segregating their chromosomes than epithelial cells growing in mice, a new study shows. 

Discoveries by two HHMI investigators show how proteins that organize into liquid droplets inside cells make certain biological functions possible.