HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, brings together teams of scientists to unlock the fundamentals of biology. By nurturing careers, influencing environments, and collaborating ...

HHMI Investigator who developed groundbreaking gene-editing technologies among eight honored for transformative advances in the life sciences. The cohort includes early career scientists working in ...

Imagine living your life with a 10-foot–long straw fastened to your face, like this acorn weevil does. That protrusion, called a rostrum, is highly useful for the weevil, however, allowing it to feed ...

Measure and monitor HHMI’s institutional greenhouse gas emissions at the two campuses we operate and look for strategies on greenhouse gas reduction at both campuses. Harness the tremendous community ...

Confetti mice are very useful in research because they allow scientists to track which cells produce which proteins based on their color under a fluorescent microscope. These mice are particularly ...

What am I looking at? This is a single human hepatocyte. Its two nuclei are in blue (1). The other colors in this image are stains of the actin protein and are depth-coded, with red being the closest ...

Imagine going to the dentist with this set of teeth! These are teeth located on a snail’s “tongue,” or radula, also called a rasper, which is constantly licking the ground to scrape up and transport ...

Beauty is all around us. It is everywhere our eyes can see – in the breathtaking majesty of snowcapped mountains, in the tranquil shores of tropical beaches, and in the faces of those we love. But ...

These are known as HeLa cells because they were originally isolated from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She went to Johns Hopkins Medical Center in 1951 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She ...

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