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Mapping how neurons connect is one of neuroscience’s biggest challenges. MouseLight (from our Janelia Research Campus) is building a dataset of fully traced neurons — available to researchers everywhere, & helping reveal how brain circuits work & what goes wrong in disease.
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“I realized we just didn’t know enough fundamental biology to offer therapies for some of the hardest-to-treat-diseases,” says HHMI Investigator Michelle Monje 🟦, awardee of The The Brain Prize 2025. At Stanford University, she's investigating what drives brain tumors, particularly in children.
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Meet the newly named #HannaGrayFellows! 👋 “HHMI is committed to investing in scientists who dare to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our lifetime,” said HHMI Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer Leslie Vosshall. “Our Hanna Gray Fellows are not only exceptional scientists, but they are also leaders who have proven their dedication to creating a more inclusive future for science.” Read more about the Hanna Gray Fellows and their work:
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Understanding basic neuroscience is essential to properly diagnose and treat diseases like childhood brain cancers, says HHMI Investigator Michelle Monje 🟦 of Stanford University University. “Some of our biggest breakthroughs in trying to understand how to better treat childhood brain cancers have come from understanding the normal cells that give rise to those cancers,” Michelle says. “What's happened in the process of brain development that's allowed those cancers to grow?” That foundation provides important clues, she says, not only about how to better treat those cancers, but how to avoid disrupting the further development of that child's nervous system.
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Andy Moore at HHMI | Janelia created this time-lapse video that shows the dynamic structure of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) within a kidney cell. As you can see, the ER is very densely packed near the nucleus, which is shown in bright orange color at the center of the cell and is less dense towards the edges of the cell. Videos like these can give us a more complete understanding of the structure and function of the ER and this knowledge could be the basis for future research on how protein and lipid production within the cell affect human health and disease. Download this video and discover more: Credit: Andy Moore, HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus
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“We’ve shown that bacteria have this profound importance on earth,” HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler said. “They communicate with chemical words, they count their numbers, they act in groups, and they carry out tasks as collectives that they could never accomplish as individuals.” At Princeton University, Bassler leads research in quorum sensing, the process by which bacteria communicate with one another to carry out collective tasks. Her lab’s work could one day lead to an alternative to antibiotics. Learn more about her lab and their work:
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