HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, brings together teams of scientists to unlock the fundamentals of biology. The Center plays a key role in HHMI's efforts to intentionally integrate ...

Defects in a critical cellular pathway can lead to symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have pinpointed defects in a critical cellular pathway that can lead to ...

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 ...

This seemingly chaotic pattern of blue and red tubes is the hyphal network of a white jelly fungus. The fruiting bodies (reproductive structures) of this fungus are used in the cuisine and traditional ...

Scientific research is our best defense against emerging threats. Ongoing research about how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, impacts the cells it infects is helping to identify new ...

Take a look inside the bladder of an aquatic bladderwort plant. You can see the single-celled algae, called desmids, that it has consumed. They will be digested to provide the plant with needed ...

Vice President, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success, and Executive Director for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Centers ...

What am I looking at? Here we see three RPEs with their cell bodies in brown (1) grown on a biodegradable scaffold in blue (2) and projections (small tendrils) emerging from the top of these cells in ...

The conical configuration of these single-celled animals known as stentors is just one of many forms the shape-shifting organisms can take on. When they adopt this formation, the stentors’ golden, ...

These spiked yellow pollen grains are still contained within the anther of this aster (a daisy-like flower) where they were produced. However, once they are released, they can travel great distances ...

HHMI researchers develop computer program that engineers a protein to fold 100-times faster than normal. Researchers have used an advanced computer program to redesign how a small protein folds into ...

These are the mouthparts of two different kinds of ticks. The mouthpart is what a tick uses to bite and latch onto you or your pets. Each mouthpart has a pair of hooked “teeth” for piercing the skin ...