The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that HHMI Investigator Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of University of Copenhagen, and K. Barry Sharpless of Scripps ...

CRISPR has sparked a renaissance in genome editing. Now, next-generation CRISPR technologies let scientists modify the genome more efficiently and precisely than before. Such tools could one day serve ...

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 one day ...

Thousands of undergraduate students contribute to new study that broadens understanding of genetic diversity of bacteriophages.

New experiments help explain how the brain speeds up or slows down movement. What if you couldn’t move faster even when you wanted to? Researchers thought that the part of the brain that determines ...

While precisely editing the DNA in a cell’s nucleus (blue) has become easier thanks to advances like CRISPR/Cas-9, it’s been much harder to edit DNA in the mitochondria (red). Now, a new tool brings ...

The goal of the Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program is to reach, recruit, and retain individuals from the diverse talent pool of early career scientists in the United States. Through their successful ...

By probing how DNA is packaged in single mouse cells, scientists have uncovered how different types of cells distinguish themselves. The resulting atlas could lead to clearer views of tissue ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists have developed a flexible method of programming cells to find and respond to molecular signals of disease. The highly customizable system, known as ...

As fish in different parts of the world adapted to live in fresh water, the same sites in the genome were changed time and again.

Flies use visual cues to finesse their mental maps of the environment. Two new studies use virtual reality to show how.

International research team unveils new data describing the interaction between genetic and epigenetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana.