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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a nonprofit medical research organization that ranks as one of the nation’s largest philanthropies, plays a powerful role in advancing biomedical research and science education in the United States. The Institute spent $776 million for research and distributed $1.6 million in grant support for science education in fiscal year 2010.

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25-Feb-2022 | science

How some gut microbes awaken zombie viruses in their neighbors

Some gut bacteria have a spooky superpower: they can reanimate dormant viruses lurking within other microbes

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22-Oct-2018 | science

Expanding the optogenetics toolkit

Controlling individual brain cells using light-sensitive proteins has proven to be a powerful tool for probing the brain's complexities. As this branch of ...

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22-Jan-2018 | science

DNA study casts light on century-old mystery of how cells divide

Scientists have solved a longstanding puzzle of how cells are able to tightly package DNA to enable healthy cell division. Their findings shed light on how ...

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22-Dec-2017 | science

CRISPR treatment prevents hearing loss in mice

Using molecular scissors wrapped in a greasy delivery package, researchers have disrupted a gene variant that leads to deafness in mice. A single treatment ...

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17-Nov-2017 | science

How the immune system identifies invading bacteria

The body's homeland security unit is more thorough than any airport checkpoint. For the first time, scientists have witnessed a mouse immune system protein ...

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31-Aug-2015 | science

Imaging techniques set new standard for super-resolution in live cells

Scientists can now watch dynamic biological processes with unprecedented clarity in living cells using new imaging techniques developed by researchers at ...

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13-Apr-2015 | science

In the sea, a deadly form of leukemia is catching

Outbreaks of leukemia that have devastated some populations of soft-shell clams along the east coast of North America for decades can be explained by the ...

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27-Oct-2014 | science

New microscope collects dynamic images of the molecules that animate life

Over the last decade, powerful new microscopes have dramatically sharpened biologists' focus on the molecules that animate and propel life. Now, a new ...

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