Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Author Profile

'DNA Microscopy' Offers Entirely New Way to Image Cells

June 26, 2019

Rather than relying on optics, the microscopy system offers a chemically encoded way to map biomolecules’ relative posi...

HIV Hidden in Cells Can Now Be Accurately Measured

January 31, 2019

Current HIV therapy involves combinations of antiretroviral drugs, each of which inhibits a specific stage of the HIV lifecyc...

How Zika Infection Drives Fetal Demise

January 9, 2018

An interferon cell receptor spurs cell suicide in mouse fetuses infected with Zika virus and could play a role in certain pre...

How to Keep Students in Science

December 5, 2017

According to a new analysis, a year-long course called SEA-PHAGES has had a substantial impact on the way students think...

Mini-Microscopes Reveal Brain Circuitry Behind Social Behavior

November 3, 2017

A microscope lens implanted deep inside a mouse’s brain shows different patterns of neural activity when the mouse inte...

New Enzyme Rewrites the Genome

October 27, 2017

A new type of DNA editing enzyme, developed in HHMI Investigator David Liu’s lab, lets scientists directly and permanen...

New Fluorescent Dyes Could Advance Biological Imaging

September 5, 2017

The work offers scientists a way to adjust the properties of existing dyes deliberately, making them bolder, brighter, and mo...

New Tools Will Drive Greater Understanding of Wheat Genes

January 25, 2017

HHMI scientists develop a much-needed genetic resource that is aiding development of wheat plants with improved traits

Smart Microscope Adapts to Changes in Live Specimens

November 15, 2016

Janelia scientists have developed the first adaptive light-sheet microscope—an instrument that continuously analyzes an...

The Genetic History of Ice Age Europe

May 2, 2016

The new genetic data reveal two big changes in prehistoric human populations that are closely linked to the end of the l...

New Standard for Super-Resolution in Live Cells

August 31, 2015

New imaging methods dramatically improve the spatial resolution provided by structured illumination microscopy

Researchers Map Neural Circuit Involved in Combining Multiple Senses

May 1, 2015

Studying fruit fly larvae, Janelia scientists have mapped the entire neural circuit involved in combining vibration and pain ...

New Fluorescent Protein Permanently Marks Neurons that Fire

February 16, 2015

A new tool developed at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus lets scientists permanently mark neurons that are active at a particul...

Janelia Scientists Win Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition

December 18, 2014

Fernando Amat, Philipp Keller, and William Lemon win first prize in the 2014 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition fo...

New Microscope Collects Dynamic Images of the Molecules that Animate Life

October 24, 2014

A new imaging platform designed at Janelia produces high-resolution images with little light damage to cells.