New research indicates individual human neurons may harbor up to 1,000 genetic mutations. A single neuron in a normal adult brain likely has more than a thousand genetic mutations that are not present ...

Content of the introductory science experience, which embodies inclusive learning. Learning Community Cluster 1 will implement three coordinated projects: faculty training in the core values of equity ...

HHMI announces the inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholars cohort — 31 exceptional early career faculty who have potential to become leaders in their research fields and to create diverse and inclusive ...

HHMI researchers devise prenatal blood test that accurately detects Down syndrome and two other serious chromosomal defects. Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have developed a new prenatal ...

HHMI awards research fellowships to 20 predoctoral students from 14 countries to help them complete their graduate studies in the U.S. HHMI awards research fellowships to 20 predoctoral students from ...

Researchers probe how gene imprinting affects the development of distinct species. By crossing two mouse species that normally do not interbreed, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers ...

HHMI has selected 24 schools in the first round of the Inclusive Excellence initiative, a program that aims to help increase the capacity of colleges and universities to effectively engage all ...

Defects in a critical cellular pathway can lead to symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have pinpointed defects in a critical cellular pathway that can lead to ...

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet announced this morning that the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Jack W. Szostak, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...

HHMI breaks ground for the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today officially broke ground for its Janelia Farm Research Campus that will be ...

HHMI announces the selection of 25 exceptional early career scientists as 2022 Hanna Gray Fellows. The 2023 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition is now open for applications. HHMI announces the ...

A powerful new technique combines expansion microscopy with lattice light-sheet microscopy for nanoscale imaging of fly and mouse neuronal circuits and their molecular constituents that’s roughly ...