Scientists have used an experimental therapy that relies on bacteria-infecting viruses collected, in part, through HHMI’s SEA-PHAGES program to fight a Mycobacterium infection in a 15-year-o... Read more
DGIST’s research Team has clarified the fundamentals of coiled toxin protein which causes neurodegenerative brain disorders A research team led by Professor Sung Bae Lee of Brain and Cogniti... Read more
By combining genomics and gene editing, researchers have figured out how to rapidly bring a plant known as the groundcherry toward domestication. Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, ras... Read more
Neuropixels probes represent a significant advance in measurement technology and will allow for the most precise understanding yet of how large networks of nerve cells coordinate to give ris... Read more
A new type of DNA editing enzyme, developed in HHMI Investigator David Liu’s lab, lets scientists directly and permanently change single base pairs of DNA from A•T to G•C. The process could... Read more
Scientists at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus created comprehensive brain maps linking different groups of neurons to specific behaviors, using a machine-learning program that annotated more... Read more
High-speed microscope images entire living organisms at high resolution A new microscope developed at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is giving scientists... Read more
Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Solar Energy and Renewable Hydrogen to Produce Methane A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berk... Read more
Pushing new frontiers in dementia research, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have found a new way to treat dementia by sending electrical impulses to sp... Read more
A new molecule-making machine could do for chemistry what 3-D printing did for engineering: Make it fast, flexible and accessible to anyone. Chemists at the University of Illinois, led by ch... Read more