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NEWS Jan 26 2023

HHMI’s Emerging Pathogens Initiative Aims for Scientific Head Start on Future Epidemics

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is committing $100 million to a new Emerging Pathogens Initiative to support basic research targeted at preparedness for emerging pathogens that could threaten...

NEWS Nov 30 2022

Together, 104 Schools Pursue Inclusive Undergraduate Science Education

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is announcing today that 104 colleges and universities are receiving grants through HHMI’s Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) initiative to continue their...

NEWS Nov 15 2022

HHMI Statement in Support of eLife and Open Science Innovation

The journal eLife recently announced a new scientific publishing model. Starting in January 2023, eLife will no longer make accept/reject decisions after peer review. Instead, every preprint that...

NEWS Oct 31 2022

Inclusive STEM Learning Environments: Six Institutions Committed to Progress

By: Sarah Simmons, HHMI program lead for Driving Change David Asai, HHMI senior director, science education It’s no secret that college science,...

NEWS Oct 27 2022

HHMI Opens National Competition for Investigator Program

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is announcing a national open competition to appoint approximately 25 new Investigators. This effort will expand HHMI’s community of more than 260...

NEWS Oct 5 2022

HHMI Investigator Carolyn Bertozzi Awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

NEWS Sep 7 2022

How Fat Signals Us to Eat More of It

Labeled in green are the fat-sensing neurons in the vagal ganglia that carry fat intestinal signals from the gut to the brain via the gut-brain axis.  Labeled in blue are the nuclei of all the...

NEWS Sep 2 2022

Ancient DNA Offers New Insights into the Origins and Spread of Languages and Populations Across the Southern Arc

Credit: Oliver Uberti The tales of humanity’s distant past were once revealed only by digging up ancient settlements, bones, and artifacts or by reading ancient texts, from the cuneiform clay...

NEWS Sep 1 2022

Blanton Tolbert Named HHMI’s Inaugural Vice President of Science Leadership and Culture

Blanton Tolbert has been named HHMI’s Vice President of Science Leadership and Culture. Credit: Blanton Tolbert Blanton Tolbert, PhD, a biochemist and administrative leader of diversity, equity,...

NEWS Aug 26 2022

A New Model Brings Researchers Closer to Growing Natural Bypasses for Blocked Hearts

In these maps of a newborn mouse's coronary arteries (different types shown in different colors), natural bypasses appear at the junctions between differently colored arteries. Researchers aim to...

NEWS Aug 24 2022

25 Early Career Scientists Become HHMI Hanna Gray Fellows

Today, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) welcomes 25 new Hanna Gray Fellows, talented postdoctoral scientists who represent a promising and more diverse future for biomedical science. The...

NEWS Aug 18 2022

The Unbreakable Attraction of Mosquitoes to Humans

A female Aedes aegypti  mosquito feeds from a researcher at The Rockefeller University. Credit: © Alex Wild More than a decade ago, Leslie Vosshall, then a relatively new Howard...

NEWS Aug 4 2022

Fishnet Shell Formed by Jumbo Phages Offers Protection Against Bacterial Host Defenses

The chimallin protein assembles as a cube in vitro, consisting of 24 individual chimallin proteins. In the cell, thousands of chimallin protomers assemble into the phage nucleus shell as a sheet...

NEWS Jul 28 2022

HHMI Awards 51 New Gilliam Fellowships to Advance Diversity and Inclusion in Science

At the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the waning days of July have become synonymous with one of the Institute’s most popular announcements – what some have come to call “Gilliam Day.” It’...

NEWS Jul 8 2022

DNA Typewriter Taps Out a Record Inside Cells

HHMI Investigator Jay Shendure in his lab at the University of Washington. Credit: Ron Wurzer/AP Images for HHMI While developing a new system for recording within cells, geneticist Jay...

NEWS Jul 1 2022

A Souped-Up Gene Promoter Stops Heat from Sapping Plant Defenses

The immune system of plants relies on the hormone salicylic acid, which helps fine-tune their defenses against infections and insect infestations. But at warm temperatures, plants turn off their...

NEWS Jun 10 2022

Scientists Have Found Neurons that Control Some Symptoms of Sickness

During an infection, inflammatory signals activate immune-sensitive neurons (genetically labeled in red) in the ventral medial preoptic area (VMPO) leading to the induction of fever and other...

NEWS Jun 9 2022

Anti-Aging Clues Lurk in Lysosomes, the Recycling Centers of the Cell

HHMI Investigator Meng Wang is studying the secrets to longevity. Her team has shown how the lysosome plays a role in aging. Credit: Anthony Rathbun/AP Images for HHMI For decades,...

NEWS May 26 2022

New HHMI Program Pledges $1.5 Billion for Outstanding Early Career Faculty Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Today, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) launched a roughly $1.5 billion program to help build a scientific workforce that more fully reflects our increasingly diverse country. ...

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Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program

NEWS May 18 2022

Spying on Thousands of Neurons in the Brain’s Vision Center Simultaneously

Scientists tracked how individual neurons (white dots) across the mouse visual center responded when the animals saw an image on a screen. That let the team trace the sequence of events...

NEWS May 11 2022

Structure of ‘Gliding Bird’ Plant Protein Could Lead to Better Crops

When exposed to pathogens, the common lab plant A. thaliana relies on a defense protein called NPR1 to stay healthy (right). Plants that lack NPR1 (left) become infected and develop yellow leaves....

NEWS May 5 2022

Cutting Calories and Eating at the Right Time of Day Leads to Longer Life in Mice

Experiments that tested various diet plans in mice found that the animals live longest on a low-calorie diet with daily fasting periods. Credit: Fernando Augusto/made-for.studio One...

NEWS Mar 31 2022

Complete Human Genome Deciphered for the First Time

Successfully completing the entire human genome has revealed a whole chromosome’s worth of previously missing DNA. Credit: Irving Geis/HHMI Evan Eichler has always been drawn to the most complex...

NEWS Mar 30 2022

Discovery of How Hyaluronic Acid Is Made Could Spur New Therapeutics

Using cryo-electron microscopy, scientists have solved the structure of hyaluronan synthase, an enzyme that stitches sugar molecules together to create hyaluronic acid.  Credit: Jochen Zimmer Lab...

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HHMI’s Emerging Pathogens Initiative Aims for Scientific Head Start on Future Epidemics

Together, 104 Schools Pursue Inclusive Undergraduate Science Education

HHMI Statement in Support of eLife and Open Science Innovation

Inclusive STEM Learning Environments: Six Institutions Committed to Progress

HHMI Opens National Competition for Investigator Program

HHMI Investigator Carolyn Bertozzi Awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

How Fat Signals Us to Eat More of It

Ancient DNA Offers New Insights into the Origins and Spread of Languages and Populations Across the Southern Arc

Blanton Tolbert Named HHMI’s Inaugural Vice President of Science Leadership and Culture

A New Model Brings Researchers Closer to Growing Natural Bypasses for Blocked Hearts

25 Early Career Scientists Become HHMI Hanna Gray Fellows

The Unbreakable Attraction of Mosquitoes to Humans

Fishnet Shell Formed by Jumbo Phages Offers Protection Against Bacterial Host Defenses

HHMI Awards 51 New Gilliam Fellowships to Advance Diversity and Inclusion in Science

DNA Typewriter Taps Out a Record Inside Cells

A Souped-Up Gene Promoter Stops Heat from Sapping Plant Defenses

Scientists Have Found Neurons that Control Some Symptoms of Sickness

Anti-Aging Clues Lurk in Lysosomes, the Recycling Centers of the Cell

New HHMI Program Pledges $1.5 Billion for Outstanding Early Career Faculty Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program

Spying on Thousands of Neurons in the Brain’s Vision Center Simultaneously

Structure of ‘Gliding Bird’ Plant Protein Could Lead to Better Crops

Cutting Calories and Eating at the Right Time of Day Leads to Longer Life in Mice

Complete Human Genome Deciphered for the First Time

Discovery of How Hyaluronic Acid Is Made Could Spur New Therapeutics

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