Neuroscience has been chasing the same fundamental question for decades: How does a vertebrate brain produce the rich, flexible behavior of a living animal? Answering it both matters in its own right, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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View the profile of Eric R. Kandel, MD, Investigator Emeriti at HHMI from Columbia University.

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor is interested in the skin-brain axis for tactile sensations. He wants to understand how the brain generates the perception of pain and pleasure based on sensory stimuli applied to ...

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