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NEWS May 20 2010

Neuroscience Comes Alive in the Lab

Neuroscience at Boston University is booming. Introduced as an undergraduate major just a year and a half ago, it will be the second most popular science major in the College of Arts and Sciences by...

NEWS May 31 2012

Trio Share 2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters has awarded the 2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience to Cornelia Bargmann, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Rockefeller University, Winfried...

NEWS Jul 24 2010

Neuroscience: Watching and Learning from Flies on the March

Using a microscope, a floating foam ball, and rock-steady hands, Janelia Farm researchers have developed a way to measure the brain activity of a fruit fly while it is walking. The new technique...

NEWS Sep 1 1996

Neuroscience Programs Teach Tools of Modern Science

In 1973, Amherst became one of the first colleges to offer an exciting new major: neuroscience. Today, Amherst undergraduates still major in the field. Only now, students use electrode-equipped...

NEWS Jul 27 2014

New Tools Help Neuroscientists Analyze Big Data

In an age of “big data,” a single computer cannot always find the solution a user wants. Computational tasks must instead be distributed across a cluster of computers that analyze a massive data...

NEWS Jun 3 2010

Thomas Südhof Awarded Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today that Thomas C. Südhof, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine, is one of eight...

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Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

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NEWS Sep 4 2013

Accelerating Neuroscience Research with Better Tools

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and UCL (University College London) are announcing a $5.5...

NEWS Mar 28 2017

Huda Zoghbi Receives Canada Gairdner International Award for Research on Rett Syndrome

The Gairdner Foundation announced today that Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Huda Y. Zoghbi of Baylor College of Medicine is a recipient of the prestigious 2017 Canada Gairdner...

NEWS Aug 9 2017

Rewired Taste System Reveals How Flavors Move From Tongue to Brain

By tangling up bitter- and sweet-sensing cells on the tongues of mice, researchers have teased apart how the taste system wires itself. The results, from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)...

NEWS Nov 3 2017

Electron Microscopy Uncovers Unexpected Connections in Fruit Fly Brain

What was once thought to be a done-and-dusted map of the fruit fly brain has gotten a second look, and researchers have discovered that it’s actually not done at all. Two teams of scientists at...

NEWS Jul 2 2002

W. Maxwell Cowan Dies; Distinguished Neuroscientist and Former Chief Scientific Officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Dr. W. Maxwell Cowan, former vice president and chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a world-renowned neurobiologist, died on June 30 after a long illness. He was 70....

NEWS May 11 2016

HHMI BioInteractive Launches a New Science Education Partnership with the Biomedical Neuroscience Institute at Universidad de Chile

Teachers and students in Latin America will have free access to the award-winning multimedia science education materials produced by HHMI BioInteractive, thanks to a new partnership between HHMI...

NEWS May 22 2017

New Clues Emerge About How Fruit Flies Navigate Their World

Nestled deep inside a fruit fly’s brain, specialized nerve cells knit themselves into a tiny compass. New results from neuroscientists at the Janelia Research Campus illuminate the architecture of...

NEWS Feb 12 2015

New Fluorescent Protein Permanently Marks Neurons that Fire

A new tool developed at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus lets scientists shine a light on an animal's brain to permanently mark neurons that are active at a particular...

NEWS Oct 27 2017

300 Neurons Traced in Extensive Brain Wiring Map

Inside the mouse brain, individual neurons zigzag across hemispheres, embroider branching patterns, and, researchers have now shown, often spool out spindly fibers nearly half a meter long....

NEWS Nov 18 2015

Study Demonstrates that Taste Is in the Brain

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and their colleagues have shown that they can control whether mice perceive a taste as...

NEWS Oct 6 2016

New Tool Will Help Expand Scope of Neural Circuit Research

Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus and the University of California, Berkeley have developed a powerful new tool for neuroscientists—a viral vector called...

NEWS Sep 28 2017

New Role for Fragile X Protein Could Offer Clues for Treatment

The protein behind fragile X syndrome acts as a genetic conductor, orchestrating a symphony of genes that help shape DNA’s 3-D structure. Fragile X mental retardation protein, or FMRP, oversees a...

NEWS Apr 24 2014

Researchers Build New Off Switch to Shut Down Neural Activity

Nearly a decade ago, the era of optogenetics was ushered in with the development of channelrhodopsins, light-activated ion channels that can, with the flick of a switch, instantaneously turn on...

NEWS Nov 8 2017

New Silicon Probes Record Activity of Hundreds of Neurons Simultaneously

Neuroscientists who want to follow the nervous system’s cellular conversations will soon have access to easy-to-use technology that simultaneously monitors neural activity at hundreds of different...

NEWS Jan 15 2016

New Studies Examine Cellular Diversity in the Hippocampus

Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus have uncovered unexpected diversity within a single, canonical cell type of the mammalian brain. Their analysis of...

NEWS May 17 2017

Storing a Memory Involves Distant Parts of the Brain

New research from scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus shows that distant parts of the brain are called into action to store a single memory. In studies with...

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Ulrike Heberlein

Janelia Senior Fellow: 2012-2020

NEWS Sep 12 2017

3-D Protein Structure Offers Insight into Rapid Communication by Brain Cells

An intricate new three-dimensional protein structure is providing a detailed look into how brain cells communicate rapidly. By visualizing how three neural proteins interact with one another,...

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Neuroscience Comes Alive in the Lab

Trio Share 2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

Neuroscience: Watching and Learning from Flies on the March

Neuroscience Programs Teach Tools of Modern Science

New Tools Help Neuroscientists Analyze Big Data

Thomas Südhof Awarded Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Accelerating Neuroscience Research with Better Tools

Huda Zoghbi Receives Canada Gairdner International Award for Research on Rett Syndrome

Rewired Taste System Reveals How Flavors Move From Tongue to Brain

Electron Microscopy Uncovers Unexpected Connections in Fruit Fly Brain

W. Maxwell Cowan Dies; Distinguished Neuroscientist and Former Chief Scientific Officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

HHMI BioInteractive Launches a New Science Education Partnership with the Biomedical Neuroscience Institute at Universidad de Chile

New Clues Emerge About How Fruit Flies Navigate Their World

New Fluorescent Protein Permanently Marks Neurons that Fire

300 Neurons Traced in Extensive Brain Wiring Map

Study Demonstrates that Taste Is in the Brain

New Tool Will Help Expand Scope of Neural Circuit Research

New Role for Fragile X Protein Could Offer Clues for Treatment

Researchers Build New Off Switch to Shut Down Neural Activity

New Silicon Probes Record Activity of Hundreds of Neurons Simultaneously

New Studies Examine Cellular Diversity in the Hippocampus

Storing a Memory Involves Distant Parts of the Brain

Ulrike Heberlein

3-D Protein Structure Offers Insight into Rapid Communication by Brain Cells

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Neuroscience Comes Alive in the Lab

Trio Share 2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

Neuroscience: Watching and Learning from Flies on the March

Neuroscience Programs Teach Tools of Modern Science

New Tools Help Neuroscientists Analyze Big Data

Thomas Südhof Awarded Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Accelerating Neuroscience Research with Better Tools

Huda Zoghbi Receives Canada Gairdner International Award for Research on Rett Syndrome

Rewired Taste System Reveals How Flavors Move From Tongue to Brain

Electron Microscopy Uncovers Unexpected Connections in Fruit Fly Brain

W. Maxwell Cowan Dies; Distinguished Neuroscientist and Former Chief Scientific Officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

HHMI BioInteractive Launches a New Science Education Partnership with the Biomedical Neuroscience Institute at Universidad de Chile

New Clues Emerge About How Fruit Flies Navigate Their World

New Fluorescent Protein Permanently Marks Neurons that Fire

300 Neurons Traced in Extensive Brain Wiring Map

Study Demonstrates that Taste Is in the Brain

New Tool Will Help Expand Scope of Neural Circuit Research

New Role for Fragile X Protein Could Offer Clues for Treatment

Researchers Build New Off Switch to Shut Down Neural Activity

New Silicon Probes Record Activity of Hundreds of Neurons Simultaneously

New Studies Examine Cellular Diversity in the Hippocampus

Storing a Memory Involves Distant Parts of the Brain

Ulrike Heberlein

3-D Protein Structure Offers Insight into Rapid Communication by Brain Cells

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